molest
verb (used with object)
to make indecent sexual advances to.
molests
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present tense formof molest (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It is my observation and belief that a grizzly, if physically able, will attack any living thing that molests it or interferes with its routine activities.
From Time Magazine Archive
No cannonade, naught that mad man can do, molests the stoical imperturbability of Nature, when Nature chooses to be still.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
We are free to roam, sketch, stare at will, and no one notices us; not even an importunate beggar molests the sketcher as she brings out her book in the middle of the street.
From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
The sportsman rarely molests them, so huge a creature affording no worthy mark for his skill, and their wanton slaughter adding nothing to the supply of food for their assailant.
From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Sir James Emerson Tennent
Over the grass they whirl, and up and down the broad avenues, and no one of all the gentle and peaceable crowd molests or makes them afraid.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
