Meaning & use
Pestered
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Repeatedly annoyed or troubled someone with requests, questions, or complaints.
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The children pestered their parents for ice cream all afternoon.
Reporters pestered the celebrity for a comment outside the courthouse.
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Originally related to infecting with plague ('pest'), the word later softened to mean persistent, minor annoyance.
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