harass
verb (used with object)
to disturb or bother persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; pester.
harassingly
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a word derived from
harass.
Example Sentences
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The cotton factor was harassingly responsible to a whole swarm of planter patrons, of whose feelings he had to be all the more careful when they were in his debt.
From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable
He cried when I said that I had not; but quietly, not harassingly.
From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
We have been the last forty-eight hours rather harassingly employed routing out a nest of pirates which we have done nearly to a man.
From Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
His style is nervous and original, not harassingly pointed like a chestnut-burr, but full of esprit or wit diffused,—that Gallic leaven which pervades whole sentences and paragraphs with an indefinable lightness and palatableness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
It was an unwieldy thing to carry and it distracted his attention harassingly.
From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Edmund Frederick
