nettled
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- v sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
- v cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- s aroused to impatience or anger
feeling nettled from the constant teasing
- His effortless victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics drew from a Nazi sportswriter the nettled tribute: "In blood and instinct, Johnson is still living in a state of innocence in .
- At least one conservative politician in Germany, perhaps looking for payback after decades of being nettled by Grass, has called for his Nobel Prize to be rescinded.
- His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent.