harassingly
- a word derived from harass.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 Ledbury, Lady Biddulph of
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 Cable, George Washington
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
For him at the time it is all quite real and harassingly or splendidly important.
From How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell by Bryant, Sara Cone
He cried when I said that I had not; but quietly, not harassingly.
From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur
