Nagging
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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