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nagging

[ nag-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

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Origin of nagging¹

First recorded in 1830–40; nag ¹ + -ing ²

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It's the equivalent of having a nagging teacher or parent telling you to "sit up!"

Maybe women should just leave comedy to the menfolk, and stick to nagging!

The only interesting thing about this video is the nagging question of WTF Avril Lavigne is talking about.

Kaku has little taste for unorthodox views or nagging objections, as they muddy his vision of tomorrowland.

The baseball player admitted to using banned products to facilitate his rehabilitation from a “nagging injury.”

Could the people of the Clinch and Holston have felt the same confidence, they would have spared themselves much nagging.

Nagging never cured anything except a tendency toward virtue, and it always deepens neurasthenia.

I'm not doing nothing wrong, and I'm half froze to death, and yet they keep a-nagging at me.

"She has spent the entire summer nagging at me," Eleanor concluded.

Mike prowled around the Power Section that afternoon with a worry nagging at the back of his mind.

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