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  • adverb In a harassing manner.

Etymologies

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harassing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 'My Lords, I want to take the opportunity .. of probing a line in this legislation about harassment that risks exacerbating an existing concern of very many in the churches … My concern with the first of those - that B's dignity may be violated - is the chain of cases we have seen in recent months where Christians, but it could be people of other faiths too, in the context of their work have said "God bless you" or offered to pray for somebody or whatever it may be, not as I understand it insistently or in any normal sense of the word harassingly, but much more because that is to them the most natural outworking of being Christian.

    Anglican Mainstream 2010

  • 'My Lords, I want to take the opportunity .. of probing a line in this legislation about harassment that risks exacerbating an existing concern of very many in the churches … My concern with the first of those - that B's dignity may be violated - is the chain of cases we have seen in recent months where Christians, but it could be people of other faiths too, in the context of their work have said "God bless you" or offered to pray for somebody or whatever it may be, not as I understand it insistently or in any normal sense of the word harassingly, but much more because that is to them the most natural outworking of being Christian.

    Anglican Mainstream 2010

  • Ummm … if everyone could please harassingly request Someone Like Me on local radio stations, that would be cool.

    Pivot Points in Space: The Tareya Interview « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2008

  • And white Cambridge police officers assigned to this area unabashedly target and harassingly patrol neighborhood blocks and activities of black male residents -- young and old.

    Irene Monroe: Living While Black in Cambridge 2009

  • The cool thing about it, besides the fact that I don't need a harassingly obnoxious alarm clock -- which I never know how to accurately program anyway -- to haul my ass out of bed, is that I get to start my day before the whole city becomes alive and turns on frenzy mode.

    Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2008

  • Vague fears flitted harassingly through his thoughts.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • His style is nervous and original, not harassingly pointed like a chestnut-burr, but full of _esprit_ or wit diffused, -- that Gallic leaven which pervades whole sentences and paragraphs with an indefinable lightness and palatableness.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • We have been the last forty-eight hours rather harassingly employed routing out a nest of pirates which we have done nearly to a man.

    Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury

  • For him at the time it is all quite real and harassingly or splendidly important.

    How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

  • It was an unwieldy thing to carry and it distracted his attention harassingly.

    The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

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