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
• pestered
• harassed
• troubled
• bullied
• tried
• made game of
• jeered
• badgered
• nagged
• irked
• derided
• peeved
• disturbed
• vexed
• exasperated
• aggravated
• tested
• griped
• riled
• hounded
• bugged
• perturbed
• goaded
• agitated
• gibed
• ruffled
• chafed
• nettled
• narked
• burned (up)
• discomforted
• fretted
• itched
• aggrieved
• tormented
• persecuted
• hectored
• galled
• bedeviled
• got
• gnawed (at)
• piqued
• grated
• harried
• beleaguered
• frosted
• dogged
• 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

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