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• n  the act of harassing someone
• v  annoy persistently
• v  persuade through constant efforts

• But don't start badgering your doctor for a statin prescription just yet.
• We've got plenty of gurus, talk-show hosts and celebrity spokespeople badgering us to save energy, lose weight and live within our means, but we're still addicted to oil, junk food .
• We see her prowling the classroom, badgering her students with scathing rhetorical questions, pinwheeling her provocative thoughts on what, when she talked about it, really was the .

• worrying
• torment
• bedevilment
• tease
• badger
• pester
• bug
• beleaguer

News & Articles

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• KAHLER: Comparison shop when choosing a financial adviser
  You can spot comparison shoppers a few aisles away at any retail store. They are the ones carrying articles from Consumer Reports, badgering the salesperson with a million and one questions. People who manage money well are usually big fans of comparison shopping.
  June 30, 2013 - Rapid City Journal

Quotes

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• Yōichi Wada in Reuters.uk
  Pardon my seething contemptuous tone but ladies, you KNOW if you were pregnant and you felt you were expanding uncontrollably by the moment as a result and the worldwide media started badgering and harassing you for it, plastering you everywhere in... Lisa Marie Presley http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Marie_Presley&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFxPybqr8igiG6Tsps4VuiIsYzDKA Reuters India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-32361920080308&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGmn2AeURS5C8z38urXf9ADlH1hfg Mar 7, 2008 7521 10805 badgering Sony first unveiled the PS3 as a mighty home electronics product. Then, after some badgering from game companies, it shifted the position of the console closer to a game machine," Square Enix President Yoichi Wada told reporters on Friday.
• Sir Alex Ferguson in Guardian
  Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said: "I think with the thing that happened during the week with Ashley Cole there is a focus on dissent. We talk about dissent and I think that was dissent. He had been booked and kept badgering the referee....