What is another word for nagging ?

more … than one can shake a stick at

Persistently or continuous in nature, especially of something unpleasant

regularized^US

regularised^UK

all day and all night

happening at intervals

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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

discoloured^UK

agonised^UK

discolored^US

paralyzing^US

paralysing^UK

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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

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

unfavorable^US

sombre^UK

somber^US

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

meagre^UK

meager^US

humourless^UK

humorless^US

gray^US

grey^UK

dishonoring^US

more than one can bear

more than flesh and blood can stand

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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

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

Slight but nagging

Adjective

Persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so

of the utmost importance

clamouring^UK

clamoring^US

somber^US

sombre^UK

humourless^UK

humorless^US

carrying a lot of weight

matter of life and death

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Adjective

(of a person) Making others work hard or meet high standards

impossible to cope with

obstinately disobedient

unfavorable^US

with one's feet dug in

iron-willed

with one's toes dug in

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Adjective

Remaining in the mind

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

pressurising^UK

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

getting your hackles up

rattling someone's cage

driving you up the wall

running up the wrong way

questioning

putting pressure on

bringing pressure to bear on

getting a rise out of

setting on

setting off

getting across someone

getting in the hair of

razzing

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

taking the piss out of

puzzling

leading someone a merry dance

punishing

playing cat and mouse

wringing

boning

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

causing discomfort to

searching high heaven

ragging on

yapping at

suffocating

tyrannizing^US

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

punishing repeatedly and unfairly

putting the screws on

having it in for

crowding

tyrannising^UK

strong-arming

discriminating against

putting someone off their stroke

terrorizing^US

putting someone off their stride

terrorising^UK

wearing on

setting someone back on their heels

hurting somebody's feelings

destabilising^UK

trying the patience of

causing to be at a stand

setting one's teeth on edge

steaming up

making someone scratch their head

demoralising^UK

causing someone to lose their composure

putting out of countenance

driving nuts

discouraging

getting someone's wick

pulling the rug from under

going to your head

flipping

sticking in one's craw

putting the wind up

acerbating

jarring on

upsetting the applecart

amazing

scaring the bejesus out of

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

making an enemy of somebody

getting on the wrong side of

throwing into confusion

throwing into uproar

throwing into disorder

balking^US

making someone fed up

making it hot for someone

sticking the knife into

expelling

making things hot for someone

singling out

getting the knife into

obfuscating

snowing

swirling

baulking^UK

stopping someone in their tracks

making your head spin

stymieing

bringing up short

balling up

messing with one's head

making punchy

intoxicating

staggering

setting someone thinking

inebriating

stimulating

making jump

scaring the living daylights out of

scaring to death

making someone's hair stand on end

taking the wind out of your sails

making self-conscious

treading on someone's toes

twisting someone's arm

scaring off

pushing about

pushing around

using strong-arm tactics on

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

Verb

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

breathing down someone's neck

keeping complaining to

moaning on at

bending someone's ear

busting someone's balls

talking under your breath

sniveling^US

snivelling^UK

expressing disapproval

kicking up a fuss about

kicking up a stink about

quarrelling^UK

quarreling^US

casting aspersions on

doing a hatchet job on

jumping down one's throat

sounding off about

working over

beefing about

letting someone have it

cracking down on

bellyaching about

complaining vehemently about

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

eating your heart out

expressing disagreement

turning on the waterworks

expressing sorrow about

turning on waterworks

crying over spilled milk

crying over spilt milk

expressing opposition

taking up the cudgels

expressing objections

crying for

kicking self

minding

expressing objections to

lodging a protest

remonstrating against

having a problem with

baulking^UK

balking^US

expressing sorrow for

expressing woe for

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Verb

Present participle for to criticize or find fault with

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

pummelling^UK

coming down on like a ton of bricks

talking to

calling to account

calling on the carpet

moralizing^US

moralising^UK

counseling^US

counselling^UK

telling a thing or two

giving a piece of one's mind

penalizing^US

belaboring^US

penalising^UK

belabouring^UK

giving someone a bad press

jumping down one's throat

casting aspersions on

nitpicking about

pouring scorn on

cutting down

giving a bad press to

going for the jugular

throwing brickbats at

passing strictures upon

giving something a bad press

meting out punishment to

reprimanding severely

calling over the coals

cudgeling^US

cudgelling^UK

taking disciplinary action against

gluing^US

glueing^UK

ostracising^UK

ostracizing^US

giving tongue-lashing

dishonoring^US

putting on the carpet

jumping down someone's throat

giving a tongue-lashing

taking on

giving someone a telling off

tearing someone a new one

rapping across the knuckles

having words

severely reprimanding

cussing out

criticizing hatefully

shouting at

eating out

giving someone a carpeting

jumping on one's case

snapping someone's head off

biting someone's head off

expressing disapproval of

pointing the finger at

sending someone away with a flea in his

dragging over the coals

rapping someone the knuckles

expressing a poor opinion of

remonstrating against

inflicting a penalty on

exacting a penalty from

imposing penalty

imposing a sentence on

hitting with

inflicting handicap

slapping with

awarding a penalty against

imposing a penalty on

putting at disadvantage

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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

twisting someone's arm

tyrannizing^US

terrorizing^US

tyrannising^UK

putting under an obligation

terrorising^UK

steamrollering

breathing down someone's neck

riding roughshod over

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

holding a gun to one's head

putting through the wringer

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

leaving someone no option

tightening the screw on

turning the screw on

putting the frighteners on

making an offer they can't refuse

bringing force to bear on

throwing your weight around

leaving someone no option but to

bringing pressure to bear upon

behoving

leaving no choice but to

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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

Verb

Present participle for to supply with moral lessons, teachings, or examples

moralising^UK

moralizing^US

sermonising^UK

sermonizing^US

admonishing

advising

demanding money with menaces

Noun

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

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Noun