harassment

difficulty; hardness; impracticability (impossibility); tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift., dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity (uncertainty); intricacy; entanglement; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze; coil (convolution); crooked path; involvement., nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point; vexed question, vexata quaestio, poser; puzzle (riddle); paradox; hard nut to crack, nut to crack; bone to pick, crux, pons asinorum, where the shoe pinches., nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble., scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position., set fast, stand; deadlock, dead set., fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac; hitch; stumblng block (hindrance).