Fuss and bother

Usage examples of hassle.

Perhaps if Issle knew the truth, the girl would hesitate before hassling her again.

While imbibing, he found several of the top sergeants of the tanker battalion and promised them invitations to a jungle juice party in order to ensure there would be no hassle with getting the drivers Junkman and Mop recruited in to sick call the next morning.

Added to that was the hassle of cajoling, browbeating or begging suppliers for their customer lists.

Israelis into Cuba, to deal with all that political hassle on top of the whole Shastri and technical thing.

Frankly, I could do without the hassle of charging you, Miss Brannigan, but you make it very tempting.

Then when they tried to get me to paddle my board out to hassle some longline tuna boats, I ran away and joined the navy.

His father had been a pastor while Hank was growing up, and the two of them had lived through a great many glories and hassles, the kind that come with pioneering churches, pastoring, itinerating.

Some pilots or traders end up in legal hassles a port or two down link.

I was putting in the hours who needed the hassle but he kept working on me telling me I was the smartest D.

The little white boy hassling the doorman at the B Street crackhouse when we showed took one look at Piss and shit, he nearly pissed his pants.

My clearance was not granted, but I was never hassled about it -- and instead of being sent to a top-secret radar installation near the Arctic Circle, I was passed over for promotion and placed in a job as sports editor of a base newspaper on the Gulf Coast of Florida.

Mexico perhaps twenty times before in his life and had never been hassled going in.

And his having one saves me the trouble of hassling with the airlines, going through the locals for permissions, all that.

The crack house still thrived, the police were still uncooperative, and his neighbors were unwilling to batter through their walls of inertia and distrust even though the daily hassles and shakedowns had grown intolerable.

We're giving you a 'milkrun,' a minimal hassle, minimal risk profilebut also a mission of maximum importance from Da Vinci to Cocytus Station on Pluto and back again.