YAPPED AT Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

yapped (at)

verb

past tense of yap (at)

as in annoyed

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The rare curtain call on the road continued an outpouring of support from Mets fans for Alonso over the past two nights — and apparently annoyed at least one of his former teammates.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
One guy in cargo shorts and a battered Ramones T-shirt kept casting dirty looks at the sky, clearly annoyed at the thumping of the TV news helicopters — there were at least three overhead at all times — drowning out his commentary.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of annoyed

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The National Labor Relations Board is currently considering allegations that Innercare illegally harassed and terminated employees during the 2024 unionization drive.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Dexter Lawrence, Jonathan Allen and other new starters harassed Baker Mayfield throughout the game in a 33-27 victory.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of harassed

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Instead, they were plagued by injuries, dropped seven of their final nine games and lost the division tiebreaker to the Carolina Panthers.

— Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
But the violence that plagued Muslims and mosques in the days and years after 9/11 stood in stark contrast to those sentiments.

— BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of plagued

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Some of the details have irked school officials because the act caps conference membership at 19 teams and requires schools moving between conferences to spend five years as an independent.

— Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
But Trinity's focus on its bottom line also irked many Republicans, including Mantello, who was the City Council president at the time.

— Noam Levey, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of irked

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Many economists believe that final round of stimulus relief overheated the economy and fed inflation, which has vexed the American public for the past five years.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
For decades scientists and researchers have been vexed by a sound emanating from cats.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of vexed

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The indictment revealed that prosecutors had bugged the Aisenbergs' home for three months after Sabrina's disappearance.

— Curran Rastogi, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, a law-enforcement agency known as NABU, had bugged Mindich’s apartment in Kyiv, and detectives picked up his conversations about Fire Point.

— Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Definition of bugged

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For more than a decade, genre fans and journalists have badgered Onslaught director Adam Wingard for a sequel to The Guest.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Stewart isn’t the only Twilight star still being badgered about the vampire franchise.

— Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of badgered

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She was treated with such indifference by the Bordens that, with the exception of Abby, no one bothered to learn her name, calling her by the name of their last servant, Maggie, instead.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
What’s bothered me, though, is how its backers have anchored their messaging around a lot of misleading generalizations about the state of college sports.

— Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of bothered

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