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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pester .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
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Examples
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Recently, I peppered her with emails (perhaps "pestered" would be a better word): What does the air smell like in April?
On Sight 2007
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Scriptwriter Andrew Davies even invented some bodice-ripping; he straightfacedly claims that Eliot's ghost "pestered" him to steam things up.
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He kind of pestered Bob Dole to create a task force on health-care reform back when the Bush administration didn't seem to be very interested in the issue, led it for many years, and under just unbelievable pressure from many in his own party and ultimately his own leader, Senator Dole, to abandon the effort and to hand President Clinton a real political setback.
The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point 1996
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Right after de War de Cherokees that had been wid the South kind of pestered the freedmen some, but I was so small dey never bothered me; jest de grown ones.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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Foremost among the leaders who pressed me on Mr. Platt (who "pestered" him about me, to use his own words) were Mr. Quigg, Mr. Odellthen State Chairman of the Republican organization, and afterwards Governorand Mr. Hazel, now United States Judge.
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Foremost among the leaders who pressed me on Mr. Platt (who "pestered" him about me, to use his own words) were Mr. Quigg, Mr. Odell -- then
Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Aunty is "pestered" (as she calls it) to death by people wanting me to sing for their charities.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886
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Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said his former wife and student son had been "pestered" by reporters, with one "rooting about" in dustbins.
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Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said his former wife and student son had been "pestered" by reporters, with one "rooting about" in dustbins.
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Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said his former wife and student son had been "pestered" by reporters, with one "rooting about" in dustbins.
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