Synonyms of hassled

hassled 1 of 2

adjective

as in harassed

Related Words

• harassed
• frustrated
• badgered
• harried
• bothered
• tortured
• provoked
• annoyed
• tormented
• irritated
• persecuted
• aggravated
• pestered
• tested
• tried
• plagued
• exasperated
• inconvenienced
• vexed
• peeved
• upset
• haggled
• perturbed
• troubled
• angry
• displeased
• bedeviled
• irked
• disturbed
• narked
• irate
• indignant
• distressed
• pinpricked
• infuriated
• outraged
• angered
• scunnered
• galled
• put out
• shirty
• riled
• resentful
• inflamed
• irritable
• ireful
• mad
• steaming
• cross
• fretful
• rankled
• sore
• peevish
• cantankerous
• testy
• huffy
• petulant
• grumpy
• snappish
• bristly
• teed off
• irascible
• grouchy
• churlish
• disapproving
• dyspeptic
• bilious
• crabby
• roiled
• snuffy
• piqued
• touchy
• cranky
• choleric
• fussy
• ill-humored
• bearish

Dissimilar Words

• happy
• pleased
• satisfied
• content
• delighted
• calm
• serene
• placid
• tranquil
• peaceable
• pacific

hassled

2 of 2

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• taunted
• teased
• mocked
• bothered
• annoyed
• heckled
• ridiculed
• rode
• baited
• hazed
• tortured
• needled
• irritated
• plagued
• picked on
• harassed
• pestered
• bullied
• troubled
• tried
• badgered
• made game of
• jeered
• nagged
• irked
• disturbed
• derided
• peeved
• vexed
• tested
• exasperated
• aggravated
• griped
• hounded
• riled
• bugged
• perturbed
• goaded
• agitated
• gibed
• ruffled
• tormented
• chafed
• nettled
• persecuted
• narked
• burned (up)
• discomforted
• fretted
• itched
• aggrieved
• hectored
• got
• galled
• bedeviled
• gnawed (at)
• grated
• piqued
• dogged
• harried
• beleaguered
• frosted
• hacked (off)
• rasped
• put out
• terrorized
• spited
• browbeat
• hagrode

2

as in bickered

to express different opinions about something often angrily

constantly hassled with the chef over the need to cook pork thoroughly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bickered
• argued
• fought
• quarreled
• clashed
• wrangled
• squabbled
• brawled
• disputed
• quibbled
• rowed
• jarred
• debated
• scrapped
• locked horns
• fell out
• tiffed
• butted heads
• controverted
• discussed
• argufied
• spatted
• altercated
• challenged
• brabbled
• mixed it up
• dared
• contested
• contended
• protested
• bandied words
• fussed
• tangled
• objected
• defied
• kicked
• nitpicked
• considered
• caviled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepted
• agreed
• consented
• concurred
• coexisted
• got along
• assented

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hassled

Verb

Members of white government clubs hassled their white neighbors into political lockstep and advertised physical and financial retribution for any Black person who dared to vote. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 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