Crossword clues for nagging
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nag \Nag\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Nagged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nagging.] [Cf. Sw. nagga to nibble, peck, Dan. nage to
gnaw, Icel. naga, gnaga, G. nagen, & E. gnaw.]
To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to
fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] ``She never nagged.''
--J.
Ingelow.
Nagging \Nag"ging\ (n[a^]g"g[i^]ng), a. Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance. n. The action of the verb ''nag''. v
(present participle of nag English)
WordNet
See nag
adj. continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents" [syn: shrewish]
Wikipedia
Nagging, in interpersonal communication, is repetitious behaviour in the form of pestering, hectoring, or otherwise continuously urging an individual to complete previously discussed requests or act on advice. As expressed by Elizabeth Bernstein, a Wall Street Journal reporter, nagging is "the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignores it and both become increasingly annoyed". Thus, nagging is a form of persistent persuasion that is more repetitive than aggressive and it is an interaction to which each party contributes. Nagging is a very common form of persuasion used in all aspects of life including domestic and professional. It is also a common practice in order to avoid more aggressive persuasive moves like threats. The word is derived from the Scandinavian nagga, which means "to gnaw".
Usage examples of "nagging".
The nagging weight of fear that had burdened my heart for the last weeks had eased.
Despite her worry and nagging uncertainty, she believed that a connection between her and Dinah did exist.
The one worry still nagging away was whether Dieter Gluck knew Sturffie.
But from every perspective other than the strictly jurisprudential one, the case remains troubling and unsettled, with the more than nagging feeling lingering that in the Lizzie Borden case, justice has not been served.
An added difficulty is that the ones supposed to be fetching Cho now are just as impressed by the local celebrity as the ones up in the Sawah, and nagging them does not seem to help.
Her pet tamrink, Tikal, could often be found scampering through the rigging, nagging the sailors with its constant mimic.
When Leso Varen had died, it was as if a nagging ache in the base of his skull had ceased.
She described the damage to the car with the persistence of a voyeur, almost nagging me with her lurid picture of the crushed radiator grille and the blood spattered across the bonnet.
She wanted to be his only parent, grooming him to stand beside her someday, and whenever Washen looked at Till, she felt a nagging resentment, petty as can be, and since it was directed at a ten year old, simply foolish.
The monologuist Ruth Draper, 18841956, became quite famous in London for stage presentations in which she portrayed a great variety of personalities, ranging from a nagging wife to a peasant girl kneeling in a cathedral.
The insistent, nagging bang of an unlatched shutter swinging freely in the wind several streets over had set some brainless dog to barking, and Sparhawk lay, still half-bemused by sleep, patiently waiting for the dog to grow wet enough or weary enough of his entertainment to seek his kennel again.
Josiah had to stand the hectoring and nagging that thitherto had been distributed among many.
Quintus had left him for adventures in the vineyards, but some nagging shred of conscience told Sabinus that he should remain an observer at the bacchanal, not a participant.
But there was also the nagging feeling that something else still lay within her field of vision, something she had not quite seen, something that might have helped place Roland Quillin behind bars where he belonged.
But he had a strange, nagging feeling that Lou Calabrese was going to be involved, somehow.