: beset by problems : harassed
a harried waiter who forgets your order
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My life was a crushing routine of harried days.
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
That seduction was not undertaken to sell their paintings, or even to provide their audiences a moment’s respite from harried lives.
—Tom McDonough, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2025
This harried conversation led to an unexpected breakthrough for mother and daughter.
—Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Patricia Crowley, who starred as the harried suburban wife and mother of four kids and a sheepdog on the 1960s NBC comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, has died.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
That seduction was not undertaken to sell their paintings, or even to provide their audiences a moment’s respite from harried lives.
—Tom McDonough, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2025
This harried conversation led to an unexpected breakthrough for mother and daughter.
—Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Patricia Crowley, who starred as the harried suburban wife and mother of four kids and a sheepdog on the 1960s NBC comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, has died.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for harried
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“Harried.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harried. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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