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Did decoy laptops give them a break from their cats’ pestersome interruptions or make any difference at all?

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2020

"Now what's ailin' you?" demanded Butch wrathily, believing the pestersome Hicks to be acting in that burglarious manner for effect.

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

The students forgave him his pestersome ways, his frequent torturing of them with banjo-twanging and rollicking ballads.

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

For Mullinix there was a short delay downstairs because the doorman, sharp on the lookout to bar pestersome intruders who might annoy the tenants, could not at first make up his mind about Mullinix.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)