peskiness

peskiness
The condition of being pesky

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  • peskiness — See peskily. * * * …   Universalium

  • peskiness — peskɪnɪs n. irksomeness, laboriousness; state of being bothersome, state of being annoying …   English contemporary dictionary

  • peskiness — pes·ki·ness …   English syllables

  • peskiness — kēnə̇s, kin noun ( es) : the quality or state of being pesky …   Useful english dictionary

  • pesky — peskily, adv. peskiness, n. /pes kee/, adj., peskier, peskiest. Informal. annoyingly troublesome: bothered by a pesky fly. [1765 75; alter. of pesty (PEST + Y1)] Syn. vexatious, irksome, bothersome, pestiferous. * * * …   Universalium

  • aggravation — Synonyms and related words: accelerando, acceleration, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, agitation, animation, annoyance, annoyingness, arousal, arousing, bad news, bedevilment, beefing up, blight, blowing up, blowup, bore, bother,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • annoyance — Synonyms and related words: ado, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, amplification, anger, annoyingness, anxiety, augmentation, aversion, bad news, bedevilment, besetment, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothering,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • exasperation — Synonyms and related words: aggravation, agitation, amplification, animation, annoyance, annoyingness, arousal, arousing, augmentation, bad news, bedevilment, besetment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, contentiousness, crashing bore,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • harassment — Synonyms and related words: McCarthyism, aggravation, annoyance, annoyingness, bad news, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothering, bothersomeness, crashing bore, devilment, difficulty, disturbance, dogging, downer, drag, exasperation,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • pesky — adjective (peskier, peskiest) informal, chiefly N. Amer. annoying. Derivatives peskily adverb peskiness noun Origin C18: perh. related to pest …   English new terms dictionary

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