nagging

nagging
    adj 1: continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish
           wife"; "nagging parents" [syn: {shrewish}, {nagging}]
    

Nagging \Nag"ging\ (n[a^]g"g[i^]ng), a.
   Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging
   toothache. [Colloq.]
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Nag \Nag\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Nagged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Nagging}.] [Cf. Sw. nagga to nibble, peck, Dan. nage to
   gnaw, Icel. naga, gnaga, G. nagen, & E. gnaw.]
   To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to
   fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] "She never nagged." --J.
   Ingelow.
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93 Moby Thesaurus words for "nagging":
      adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices,
      bad press, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery,
      cajoling, captious, captiousness, carping, catty, cavil, caviling,
      censoriousness, chronic, coaxing, continual, continuous, critical,
      criticism, cynical, demanding, distressing, dunning, exception,
      faultfinding, flak, fretful, hairsplitting, haunting, hit,
      home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical, hypercriticalness,
      hypercriticism, importunate, importunateness, importunity,
      imputation, indelible, insistent, knock, naggy, niggle, niggling,
      nit, nit-picking, obloquy, obsessive, overcritical,
      overcriticalness, peevish, persistent, pestering, pettifogging,
      pettish, petulant, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressure,
      priggishness, querulous, quibble, quibbling, rap, recurrent,
      recurring, reflection, relentless, reproachfulness, resentful,
      shrewish, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, teasing,
      trichoschistic, trichoschistism, ultracritical, unforgettable,
      unrelenting, urgency, urgent, urging, vixenish, vixenly,
      wheedling