badgered
恶言相向,恶语伤人,恶语相向,恶作剧
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Definitions
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- : any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- : the fur of this mammal.
- : Australian. a wombat.bandicoot.
- : a native or inhabitant of Wisconsin .
- : a swablike device for cleaning excess mortar from the interiors of newly laid tile drains.
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- : to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag: I had to badger him into coming with us.
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Examples
The producer, Jonathan Koch, doggedly badgered her into taking the part.
Throughout the 1970s Carter badgered the NATO allies to rearm.
The next season, Favre pulled the same stunt, but this time badgered the Packers into trading him to the New York Jets.
But we saw the same philosophy on North Korea, where he badgered the Bush administration to be tougher.
D'ye know why, a month ago, I badgered Newcastle into getting me a company in the Blues?
He had been badgered too much this morning, and this big, rather convincing looking applicant worried him.
Dormer is being badgered out of his mind big as he is and he hasn't intellect enough to resent it.
It simply means that if any member wants to badger some one in the House about the Colonies, I am the man to be badgered.
Stoneman pushed his way among the mob which surrounded the badgered Puritan as he attempted to retreat into the cloakroom.