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
How lightly he regarded hardship and molestation appears from his verses— Whatever molests or troubles life, When past, as nothing we esteem, And pain, like pleasure, is a dream.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
The fact is, these animals feel perfectly secure, for, with the p. 169exception of a few Mongols who follow the chase, nobody ever molests them.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc
You will be good enough to understand that the terms are fixed;—two hundred a year as long, as he remains in France and never molests anyone either by his presence or by letter.
From An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope
In self-defence we had our boots blacked, for the ambulating bootblack molests no longer the owner of a well-polished pair of boots.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
