Thesaurus / nagging
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synonyms for nagging
- aching
- agonizing
- excruciating
- grievous
- inflamed
- severe
- terrible
- throbbing
- troublesome
- biting
- burning
- distressing
- harrowing
- hurting
- irritated
- piercing
- saddening
- smarting
- stinging
- tender
- tormenting
- trying
- achy
- afflictive
- arduous
- awful
- caustic
- difficult
- dire
- disagreeable
- distasteful
- dreadful
- extreme
- extremely bad
- hard
- hurtful
- laborious
- raw
- sensitive
- sharp
- sore
- tedious
- uncomfortable
- unpleasant
- vexatious
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He’s on track for his highest career rating in FiveThirtyEight’s total RAPTOR metric, and though he’s dealing with another nagging injury, he’s already accumulated more RAPTOR wins above replacement than in any of his previous seasons.
LONZO BALL HAS TAKEN A LEAP THIS SEASON. WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO KEEP HIM IN NEW ORLEANS?JAMES L. JACKSONAPRIL 1, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe nagging feeling persists, even and maybe even especially on Zoom.
BEAUTY BUSINESSES ARE STRUGGLING WITHOUT USMELINDA FAKUADEOCTOBER 30, 2020VOXThen there is the nagging, ingrained expectation that, even in a supportive heterosexual partnership, the person who is supposed to sacrifice their career to take care of the children is the woman.
THE ECONOMY COULD LOSE A GENERATION OF WORKING MOTHERSBRYCE COVERTOCTOBER 30, 2020VOXOn Friday, less than 48 hours before the race, Bekele withdrew, citing a nagging calf injury.
ELIUD KIPCHOGE’S STREAK COMES TO AN END IN LONDONMARTIN FRITZ HUBEROCTOBER 5, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINESara Garner had a nagging feeling something wasn’t quite right.
DIGITAL GARDENS LET YOU CULTIVATE YOUR OWN LITTLE BIT OF THE INTERNETTANYA BASUSEPTEMBER 3, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWCould the people of the Clinch and Holston have felt the same confidence, they would have spared themselves much nagging.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERNagging never cured anything except a tendency toward virtue, and it always deepens neurasthenia.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEYI'm not doing nothing wrong, and I'm half froze to death, and yet they keep a-nagging at me.
GALLEGHER AND OTHER STORIESRICHARD HARDING DAVIS"She has spent the entire summer nagging at me," Eleanor concluded.
QUINALICE HEGAN RICEMike prowled around the Power Section that afternoon with a worry nagging at the back of his mind.
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WORDS RELATED TO NAGGING
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.