Synonyms of badgering

badgering

verb

present participle of badger

as in teasing

to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders

He's always badgering me about the dishes.

Related Words

• teasing
• pestering
• harassing
• hounding
• nagging
• plaguing
• annoying
• hassling
• baiting
• harrying
• bothering
• worrying
• prodding
• urging
• heckling
• irritating
• goading
• prompting
• insisting
• egging
• pressuring
• pushing
• inciting
• spurring
• exhorting
• insulting
• angering
• provoking
• deviling
• antagonizing
• bullyragging
• infuriating
• upsetting
• pressing
• inflaming
• hagriding
• rousing
• enraging
• maddening
• distressing
• incensing
• agitating
• rankling
• perturbing
• roiling
• bugging
• fretting
• exercising
• unsettling
• disquieting
• discomforting
• offending
• aggravating
• griping
• exasperating
• undoing
• affronting
• persecuting
• itching
• riling
• unhinging
• irking
• outraging
• nettling
• ruffling
• eating
• vexing
• spiting
• freaking (out)
• burning (up)
• galling
• chafing
• grating
• piquing
• discomposing
• narking
• rasping
• frosting
• hacking (off)
• peeving
• getting
• miffing
• putting out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of badgering

Unlike during Warsh’s first stint at the Fed, the current president has been badgering the central bank for rate cuts. —Reuters, NBC news, 13 May 2026

The coding craze spread quickly, from parents badgering their kids to drop the English major and opt for a STEM degree—and former President Barack Obama even urged people to learn to code. —Jake Angelo, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026

Falcinelli continued badgering the officers about his phone. —Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026

The future five-time Super Bowl MVP was with his family, sitting five rows from the top of the stadium, badgering his parents to buy him an oversized foam finger. —Daniel Brown, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026

Not only in badgering a quarterback making his first start or in holding Tennessee without a touchdown. —Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026

Jason Bateman shines in the scene with the Diamond District connect, fast-talking and badgering this guy within an inch of his life until Mancuso and Babbitt show up to take him out. —Andy Andersen, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025

Impatient investors have been badgering the company for several years to cash in some of its more valuable assets. —Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

Poor people know the intimate, badgering pangs of hunger, but in Ireland, the memory of the 1845-1848 Famine—the Great Hunger, when one million died from starvation and disease, and another million emigrated—still aches. —Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025