What is another word for nagging ?

fixed as the laws of the Medes and Persians

Persistently or continuous in nature, especially of something unpleasant

fossilized^US

regularised^UK

regularized^US

fossilised^UK

all day and all night

that will live forever

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“I always have this nagging feeling that someone is out to get me.”

Adjective

Physically painful, sore or uncomfortable

feeling uncomfortable

feeling tender

giving someone trouble

agonized^US

agonised^UK

discoloured^UK

discolored^US

paralyzing^US

paralysing^UK

angry-looking

puffed up

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“Any type of taxing physical activity increases the risk of sustaining a nagging injury and can prolong recovery time.”

Adjective

Causing worry, distress or anxiety

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

unfavorable^US

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“Jim could not shake the nagging thought that something was not quite right.”

Adjective

(of a person) Constantly harassing someone to do something

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

ill-humored^US

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“Broke and reduced to living with his nagging aunt, Jamal gets the bright idea to put on a wig and falsies and join the women's league.”

Adjective

Not easy to please or satisfy

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Adjective

Slight or subtle, but nagging or persistent

Adjective

Causing distress, sadness or anxiety

sombre^UK

somber^US

unfavorable^US

humourless^UK

humorless^US

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

gray^US

grey^UK

meager^US

meagre^UK

colorless^US

lacklustre^UK

lackluster^US

colourless^UK

agonized^US

agonised^UK

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Adjective

Persistent in one's demands, often annoyingly so

Adjective

Very difficult or impossible to forget

never to be forgotten

flakey^US

flaky^UK

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Adjective

getting someone's dander up

(of a disease or symptom) Very bad or severe

Verb

To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting someone's goat

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting your back up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

making somebody's hackles rise

getting on one's nerves

bending someone's ear

preying on your mind

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

driving bananas

causing suffering to

ruffling one's feathers

eating at

making anxious

trying your patience

getting up someone's nose

victimizing^US

rubbing the wrong way

stirring up

getting your dander up

victimising^UK

taking control of

putting someone's nose out of joint

rubbing you up the wrong way

despairing

bumming

rattling someone's cage

getting your hackles up

bringing pressure to bear on

getting a rise out of

setting on

setting off

getting across someone

driving you up the wall

getting in the hair of

razzing

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

taking the piss out of

flipping out

causing concern to

making uncomfortable

causing discomfort to

searching high heaven

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

tyrannizing^US

tyrannising^UK

discriminating against

punishing repeatedly and unfairly

putting someone off their stroke

putting someone off their stride

wearing on

setting someone back on their heels

hurting somebody's feelings

trying the patience of

causing to be at a stand

setting one's teeth on edge

jarring on

steaming up

making someone scratch their head

causing someone to lose their composure

putting out of countenance

driving nuts

destabilizing^US

getting someone's wick

terrorizing^US

pulling the rug from under

sticking in one's craw

terrorising^UK

acerbating

making fretful

upsetting the applecart

pulling the rug out from under

raising hell

making someone's hackles rise

getting on someone's nerves

getting someone's hackles up

ruffling someone's feathers

getting under someone's skin

getting in someone's hair

trying someone's patience

getting on someone's tits

getting someone's back up

pushing someon's buttons

pushing one's buttons

running up the wrong way

taking the wind out of your sails

making self-conscious

worsting

quickening

making an enemy of somebody

getting on the wrong side of

making it hot for someone

sticking the knife into

expelling

making things hot for someone

dragooning

singling out

getting the knife into

making someone fed up

making your head spin

stymieing

bringing up short

balling up

messing with one's head

making punchy

intoxicating

staggering

setting someone thinking

treading on someone's toes

giving offence to

knocking off balance

balking^US

baulking^UK

stopping someone in their tracks

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“The anxiety that had nagged her all through lunch.”

Verb

breathing down someone's neck

Present participle for to complain or express discontent in a wearisome manner

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

keeping complaining to

moaning on at

bending someone's ear

busting someone's balls

complaining vehemently about

sniveling^US

snivelling^UK

expressing disapproval

kicking up a fuss about

kicking up a stink about

quarrelling^UK

quarreling^US

beefing about

screaming bloody murder

talking under your breath

moaning and groaning

casting aspersions on

doing a hatchet job on

objecting strongly to

fighting

taking issue with

expressing disagreement with

frowning upon

lodging a protest against

taking a stand against

complaining vociferously about

animadverting

expressing disapproval of

combating

withstanding

raising objections to

expressing regret about

clamouring^UK

clamoring^US

expressing disagreement

turning on the waterworks

eating your heart out

breaking down

expressing sorrow

expressing sorrow about

turning on waterworks

crying over spilled milk

weeping for

crying over spilt milk

expressing sorrow for

expressing opposition

taking up the cudgels

expressing objections

minding

expressing objections to

lodging a protest

remonstrating against

having a problem with

baulking^UK

balking^US

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Verb

Present participle for to criticize or find fault with

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

giving someone a bollocking

lacing to

letting someone have it

hauling over the coals

giving someone a caning

raking over the coals

giving someone a wigging

giving someone some stick

going on at

taking to task

taking to the woodshed

bringing to book

giving someone a mouthful

rapping over the knuckles

giving someone a dressing-down

giving someone an earful

giving someone a roasting

giving someone a rollicking

giving someone a telling-off

giving someone hell

putting on the mat

tearing off a strip

giving someone a rating

giving someone what for

sending someone away with a flea in their ear

having someone on the carpet

keeping after

slapping someone's wrist

giving the business

biting someone's head off

jumping down someone's throat

pummelling^UK

calling on the carpet

arraigning

attasking

moralizing^US

moralising^UK

counseling^US

counselling^UK

telling a thing or two

giving a piece of one's mind

coming down on like a ton of bricks

belaboring^US

giving someone a bad press

belabouring^UK

inveighing against

jumping down one's throat

calling over the coals

giving something a bad press

ostracising^UK

ostracizing^US

casting aspersions on

giving tongue-lashing

ridiculing

lampooning

nagging at

sending someone away with a flea in his

giving the dickens

lowering the boom

laying out

dragging over the coals

criticizing severely

rapping someone the knuckles

rapping across the knuckles

having words

severely reprimanding

giving someone a telling off

tearing someone a new one

reprimanding severely

chewing

cussing out

jumping all over

criticizing hatefully

giving one hell

eating out

giving someone a carpeting

passing strictures upon

holding responsible

holding someone to blame

meting out punishment to

tearing down

picking on

jumping on one's case

shooting down

starting on

snapping someone's head off

assaulting verbally

going for the jugular

dishonoring^US

expressing disapproval of

cudgeling^US

cudgelling^UK

giving a bad press to

throwing brickbats at

putting someone in their place

deflating

browbeating

taking down a peg or two

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Verb

using strong-arm tactics on

Present participle for to demand earnestly or pressingly

putting the screws to

exerting influence on

putting the screws on

putting the squeeze on

bringing pressure to bear on

bouncing

working on

twisting someone's arm

terrorizing^US

putting under an obligation

frightening

terrorising^UK

mau-mauing

worrying

breathing down someone's neck

tyrannizing^US

riding roughshod over

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

holding a gun to one's head

putting through the wringer

tyrannising^UK

clamouring^UK

clamoring^US

enquiring^UK

going on bended knee to

asking authoritatively

giving the command to

tightening the screws on

having someone do something

turning the screws on

telling someone what to do

giving orders

ordering about

ordering around

leaving someone no option

bringing force to bear on

prevailing upon

effecting

having

tightening the screw on

making an offer they can't refuse

victimizing^US

leaving someone no option but to

throwing your weight around

making it hot for someone

putting the frighteners on

victimising^UK

making things hot for someone

scaring the bejesus out of

putting the bite on someone for

worming something out of someone

arm-twisting

blackmailing someone for

obtaining by threats

bringing pressure to bear upon

demanding hush money from

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Verb

Present participle for to verbally criticize harshly, especially with insulting language

belabouring^UK

belaboring^US

libelling^UK

libeling^US

minimising^UK

minimizing^US

casting aspersions on

trash-talking

giving a black eye

Noun

demanding money with menaces

The use of persuasion or intimidation to make someone do something

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

fulfilment^UK

putting into practice

fulfillment^US

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Noun

Continual criticism, typically concerning trivial things

Noun