Synonyms:
annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed
Meaning: troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"
Usage examples
The harassed commandant grinned.
And there were various matters also which harassed him.
William noticed that his father looked pale and harassed.
"I had thought of going, but my mind is too much harassed.
One thought, above all others, harassed and alarmed me; it was one calculated to shake firmer nerves than mine.
Now we were compelled to trespass upon the country of hostile tribes and were harassed by them almost daily and nightly.
If his sisters or their friends happened to be among the onlookers on "popular nights," Sylvester stood back in the shadow under the cottonwood trees, smoking and watching Lena with a harassed expression.
As there were no field dressing stations they had to be carried for days with their wounds undressed before they reached the hospital, and when they arrived it was often some time before the harassed doctors could care for them.
To-day the best that a harassed Black Hawk merchant can hope for is to sell provisions and farm machinery and automobiles to the rich farms where that first crop of stalwart Bohemian and Scandinavian girls are now the mistresses.
The queen's zeal, under colour of tender mercy to the prisoner's soul, induced her to send divines, who harassed her with perpetual disputations; and even a reprieve for three days was granted, in hopes that she should be persuaded during that time to pay, by a timely conversion, some regard to her eternal welfare.