A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

Usage examples of harassment.

Land forces battered their way through guerilla harassment and started to bring their weight to bear on the Santander blocking elements.

No official records existed of Wolfgang Kies, which meant I was free of harassment by the city unless I attracted their attention.

Life at the academy did not become easier for our portly friend, for despite drilling and the marching of his numerous demerits he grew no leaner, though he did seem to become both stronger and gain more endurance, both for physical exercise and the routine harassment that came with his girth.

After the destruction of the Lossen, the remainder of the Danish fleet withdrew to the west, under continued harassment by the remaining U.

However, I knew the harassment of Gloria Neames was only the first shot of the war.

To demand that Farrow or Tilth cease executing people for the Wit is like demanding that Shoaks cease all harassment along their border with Chalced.

The thrust of CCD policy, however, was to weaken socialist, communist, and Marxist influence by example, through the harassment and vetting of the most influential and prestigious purveyors of such views.

That concerns me because it furnishes you the ability to force war between my nation and yours, by making me subject in Britain to endless harassment!

The harassment was so severe that his accuser, Anita Hill, continued working for Thomas for years, followed him to other jobs, exchanged friendly correspondence with him, and kept the story of her brutal victimization a secret for the next, oh, decade or so.

The article went on to recount the sexual harassment brouhaha of the previous fall, which had not involved her at all but had made life at headquarters unpleasant for everyone for a month or two.

The Iraqis continued to look for ways to hamstring the inspectors, but their obstructionism and harassment were more an annoyance than an impediment.

It was one thing to go to him with a clear-cut case of obstructionism, but harassment was a harder thing to prove.

This was quite a feat since Ventura had taken the opportunity of an interview with a pornographic magazine to commit liberal heresy on the subject of sexual harassment.

Ted and his partner, Neal, had been the targets of a series of antigay harassments that the entire agency had worked to bring to a halt, but the homophobe who had perpetrated them was firmly ensconced in prison.

It was an era of international and interregional political tensions and harassment, and military, technological and industrial sabotage and espionage.