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badgering

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1. badgering - Noun

2. badgering - Verb

Meaning

of Badger

The act of one who badgers.

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him. Woody Harrelson

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions. Maria Semple

Difficulties in France The French made every effort to rescue Jacobite chieftains as well as Charles, and gave him a hero's welcome on his return to France, but soon tired of his badgering them to provide a renewed assault on the Hanoverians. Source: Internet

Dryden's main goal in the work is to "satirize Shadwell, ostensibly for his offenses against literature but more immediately we may suppose for his habitual badgering of him on the stage and in print." Source: Internet

He spent much time shopping and walking near the seafront but despite Derleth's badgering, resisted the writing of more fiction. Source: Internet

A common tool for badgering or coercing the vulnerable is the internet. Source: Internet

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