pestering

• “(But on the other hand, if I hadn't been willing to debate, I never would have gotten the perspective that some women give in because they think the pestering is a prologue to rape and they'd rather give in semi-willingly than anger the man until he eventually assaults them — an interesting thought that obviously changes the way that we'll have to work to solve the problem.)”

  The Nature Of Communication

• “Let the calls pestering our elected officials to remain faithful to our agenda start once more.”

  The Huffington Post: Is There a Line in the Health Care Reform That Promises a Cure for AIDS?

• “I, “O thou with tongue long as the tail of a jackass, thou persistest in pestering me with thy prate and thou becomest more longsome in thy long speeches, when all I want of thee is to shave my head and wend thy way!””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “I always assumed that it was pretty much the same thing we all do when we find a really wicked piece of music and immediately begin pestering everyone we know to listen to it.”

  Archive 2006-10-01

• “The setups weren't bad, and in fact that slap pass to Smith for the opener was downright pretty, but the pestering was a thing to behold if you're into that sort of thing.”

  Yahoo! Sports - Top News

• “And it's easy to slip in words like "pestering" when you mean to disparage a person who is only doing the normal thing under the circumstances.”

  Archive 2007-10-01

• “She would be the kind of pestering woman at the grocery store who would ask if you have a moment to fill out a form.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005

• “Because of this accident of history, Day was sniped at in the factory for not knowing his place by 'pestering' me, and even for being a social climber.”

  WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA

• “He had long, fretful monologues on the vanity of diamond-making, if accompanied with a "pestering" by "interlopers;" on the wickedness of concealment and conspiracy, and their effects on charcoal-burning; on the nurturing of spies and "adders" in the family circle, and on the seditiousness of dark and mysterious councils in which a gray-haired father was left out.”

  Flip, a California romance

• “I dare say that if the truth could be got at, we should find that little Victoria was at times trying enough to mother, masters, and attendants; that she was occasionally passionate, perverse, and "pestering," like all children who have any great and positive elements in them.”

  Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood

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