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accosted

[ uh-kaw-stid, uh-kos-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Heraldry.

First recorded in 1600–10; accost + -ed ²

Days later, supermodel Kate Moss accosted Bieber at another party in Ibiza, giving him a dressing down over his behavior.

Several characters accosted us with intentions even former White House junior hosts could recognize as suspect.

However, according to the police, Hembling was arguing with two or three people, not being accosted by a “mob” of any size.

The young lawyer was returning to her townhouse near Regents Park with her boyfriend when she was accosted soon after dark.

The doctors were accosted by local settlers, and the Arab doctors and their families were subjected to racial harassment.

It was not the first time by several he had thus accosted her; and to give her her due, she was always civil to him.

It was the man with the bluish cheek scar who had accosted him after the triple-killing in that office building.

It sometimes happened during our journey that I was accosted by some one or other when unobserved, in places where we stopped.

We accosted the friend, feeling instinctively that she was framed of softer stuff, and asked her if the path were a private one.

No sooner were we inside the railings than Mr. Kipling was accosted by a military policeman.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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