hassling 1 of 2

present participle of hassle
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hassling

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adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hassling
Verb
  • During the game in the first quarter, DeJean was called for an unsportsmanlike penalty for taunting.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Joe LaCava violated Rory’s airspace on the 18th green while taunting the same gallery that had teased his player, Patrick Cantlay, who had reportedly declined to wear a team hat to protest the lack of player compensation at such a big event.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jennifer Aniston’s Alex Levy, Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson, and the other members of The Morning Show’s newsroom and its network are once again bickering and backstabbing.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Coaches are also bickering about money, a topic that would have felt out of place 10 years ago.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • To get a sense of his whole deal, look no further than the half-mocking, half-earnest title of his latest album, Country!
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As of this writing, there's no official trailer for Interview With the Vampire season 3, though AMC did drop a teaser teasing Lestat's life as a rock icon.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Emerald Fennell is teasing her film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which garnered significant attention following the release of the trailer earlier this month.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For decades, DeLodder said, hospitals have quelled the establishment of freestanding birthing centers by arguing against their necessity.
    Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The budget director wrote the project’s chapter on the Executive Office of the President, arguing that the bureaucracy is riddled with inefficiencies and corruption.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The injury that will sideline Herro to begin this season is one that had been bothering him for a few months.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Even scrambling around, his knee was bothering him.
    Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But instead of fighting my body and losing, now my body and I fight together against our enemy, anxiety.
    Jack Korngold, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Meghan and Harry might be fighting constantly over her Netflix show With Love, Meghan.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Vice President Vance appeared on FOX News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle hours after the heckling incident, telling the host about visiting with the national guardsmen and discussing recent changes to the city, while briefly mentioning the protesters.
    Jillian Frankel, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Hassling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hassling. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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