PESTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pestered mean? 

• PESTERED (adjective)
  The adjective PESTERED has 1 sense:

1. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

  Familiarity information: PESTERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PESTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

Synonyms:

annoyed; harassed; harried; pestered; vexed

Context example:

the vexed parents of an unruly teenager

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 Context examples 

You’d be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once, he declined something from the servant who interrupted and pestered at his shoulder, and he said, shortly and emphatically, "Pew!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These people always clear out when they hear of trouble, for they do not wish to be pestered by the police.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The occasion was this: the kingdom is much pestered with flies in summer; and these odious insects, each of them as big as a Dunstable lark, hardly gave me any rest while I sat at dinner, with their continual humming and buzzing about mine ears.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For I have already told the reader how much I was pestered by these odious animals, upon my first arrival; and I afterwards failed very narrowly, three or four times, of falling into their clutches, when I happened to stray at any distance without my hanger.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)