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badgering
adjective as in teasing
noun as in ribbing
Example Sentences
And there are certainly men who are forceful without being badgering.
At that time Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were badgering her about legislating from the bench.
CNN's John King: He was so annoying and such a badgering presence on stage that I wondered if he was running for president too.
The people are very unsettled, thanks to this disputed boundary question, and the badgering of the Natal Government.
But that can be no possible reason for badgering the life out of his father's widow twenty years after his father's death!
Go, and sit, and look sheepish, and sing hymns with the people I've been badgering; and everybody seeing me!
Abdul Kerim escaped with a slight reprimand, but I afterwards heard the other men badgering him.
There was more of this pleading and emotional badgering until finally out of sheer exhaustion Angela said yes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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