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nagging /ˈnaɡɪŋ /adjective1(Of a person) constantly harassing someone to do something: jokes about nagging wives and tyrannous mothers-in-law...- He said his nagging wife drove him to do it.
- It is also deeply flawed by the lack of development of Charlotte's character - she is portrayed simply as a nagging harridan on the periphery of the story.
- They can be there for a few days without the nagging spouse dragging them inexorably back to Monday morning.
2Persistently painful or worrying: a nagging pain only a handful of nagging doubts remained...- I joined the team last year for the first time, despite a prolonged nagging illness.
- For simple difficulties, a quick word of advice is often just the thing to solve a nagging problem.
- The program ought to be required viewing for American schoolchildren - the next generation facing the nagging problems of race.
Derivativesnaggingly adverb ...- Meanwhile, mom's heart may not be beating, but she's still with them, naggingly offering irritating guilt trips from beyond the grave.
- Even so, they are tunes that naggingly sit in your brain: teasingly elusive and impossible to pin down immediately.
- Not a great opera, perhaps, but nevertheless a very interesting one, its disturbing theme clinging naggingly to the conscience in a way than more sumptuous fare rarely does.
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