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adjective

as in harassed

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verb

past tense of hassle
1
as in taunted
to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults a small group of jeering protesters hassled the politically active singer at every appearance she made

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2
as in bickered
to express different opinions about something often angrily constantly hassled with the chef over the need to cook pork thoroughly

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Recent Examples of hassled
Verb
In the ad, Piven pulls up to a Miami mansion party in a sports car and is hassled by a bouncer. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026 Each presents a group portrait of a handful of disaffected British suburbanites—husbands who resent their deadening jobs, toddlers who whine and interrupt, and, above all, hassled wives subsumed by a crush of household obligations. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026 Tzolis routinely joined the press late and hassled the player in possession from his blindside. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 16 July 2026 To be alone, after all, may be worse than being hassled. — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026 Back in the late ’90s and early 2000s, skateboarding was a counterculture sport; enthusiasts hassled in streets and parking lots with few safe places to shred. — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 8 May 2026 Accompanied by her young son Israel, Owens went across the street to Lorincz's residence that evening to retrieve a tablet Israel claimed that Lorincz, who'd repeatedly hassled and called the police on the neighborhood children for years, had stolen from him. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025 The police hassled him and other migrant workers. — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hassled
  1. harassed
  2. taunted
  3. bickered
  4. frustrated
  5. teased
  6. argued
  7. harried
  8. mocked
Adjective
  • Others were placed under house arrest, harassed or subject to extensive surveillance, or had their passports confiscated, according to prior NPR reporting and the findings of the United Nations and rights groups.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 17 May 2026
  • For years, Christian clergy who live and work in Jerusalem have reported being frequently spat on, harassed and even physically attacked by Israeli extremists.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 1 May 2026
Definition of harassed
Verb
  • The rivalry between the two stars dates back to the 2023 NCAA women’s national championship game, when Reese's LSU Tigers defeated Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes and Reese famously, and without class, taunted Clark in the closing moments.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The older Green Lantern taunted the alien so much, that the creature detonated itself, blowing a hole into the side of the jail.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of taunted
Verb
  • King bickered with fans on social media.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • But Tilly and Gershon playfully bickered onstage as the former remembered things slightly differently, with Tilly saying the problem had more to do with a shot of her hand on Gershon's crotch that was deemed too realistic.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 8 June 2026
Definition of bickered
Adjective
  • True to form, Zverev delivered a new reason for fans to grow frustrated with him.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Regardless of whether players and fans believe the series features one Link or multiple Links across the convoluted timeline posited in the Hyrule Historia, each of these games ends at a moment of frustrated erotic climax.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of frustrated
Verb
  • Boox teased the Picco, its take on the buzzy Xteink X4 e-reader, back in July, but provided almost no details.
    — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2026
  • At the time, Earle only teased her potential response to Cooper, but has publicly remained mostly silent about the conflict until now.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of teased
Verb
  • But the earnings data used by Dangote and its issuing houses make assumptions and calculations that are not clearly reconciled, Fawehinmi argued in an analysis published on Substack over the weekend.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Native American groups have argued that the construction could inhibit their ability to practice their faith and is damaging important religious sites while environmentalists worry the wall will cause flooding or keep animals from migrating.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of argued
Adjective
  • Indeed, the footage of the harried production staff trying to keep the show going on from the office at Bray Studios where the shoot is happening sometimes plays like a vintage workplace comedy but with a dark undertow.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The Hawk fire forced the harried evacuation of more than 40,000 people.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of harried
Verb
  • In fact, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which killed six and injured more than a thousand people but hardly rocked the buildings, ironworkers mocked the idea that any terrorist could ever take down those great structures.
    — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
  • He was criticised by Guardiola last season for not challenging Virgil van Dijk anywhere near enough at Anfield in February, and he was mocked by supporters at Old Trafford in January after he was kept quiet by Lisandro Martinez and Harry Maguire.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of mocked

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