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pesky

(= annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing) causing irritation or annoyance tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport found it galling to have to ask permission an irritating delay nettlesome paperwork a pesky mosquito swarms of pestering gnats a plaguey newfangled safety catch a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him a vexatious child it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong

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Simple sentences

There's a pesky wrinkle on my shirt that I just can't get the iron to remove.

Movie subtitles

These pesky critters won't stop.
This is also the weapon that stampeded the blasted blue-bellies at Three Oaks. and cleared Clay County forever of the pesky invaders.
Leave your pesky fish and come.
But if he gets pesky, I'll turn him across my knee and spank him.
Ah, that pesky English!
Now, my little pesky pets, you're going to travel first class. In your own private compartment. All the way to Timbuktu.
One pesky impala in particular makes her life a misery.
Oh, you pesky birds!
The boys in gray slugged it out with a pesky poltergeist then stayed to dance with the ladies who witnessed the disturbance. This is Casey Kasem. Now on with the countdown.
Until that pesky nuclear explosion.
Want to get rid of them pesky living critters?
No more problems with those pesky border troops!
Even without closing my eyes, I can picture him big, friendly, shaggy, asleep at your feet keeping you company while you're trying to finish up those pesky little sketches.
But if we're gonna break ground, when we gotta break ground. I'll need permits, variances, tax incentives. That sort of pesky nonsense.
It must be those pesky kids.
Pesky little ape is back.
The other little pesky creatures are none other than Cleo, Juliet and Josephine.
All right, just gonna get a little pesky hunk of spear tip out of his shoulder here.
Well, I've heard, that Holleck got wind of you trying to get his girls deported as pesky foreigners.
Hide behind the fuzz and get our ladies deported as pesky foreigners.
Now, my little pesky pets, you're going to travel first class.
The boys in gray slugged it out with a pesky poltergeist then stayed to dance with the ladies who witnessed the disturbance.
What about that pesky alien.
You know, Nicky, there is still that pesky extradition treaty with Turkey, heh, heh.
I'm off now to patch up that pesky Iran-Iraq squabble.
Well, that should take care of those pesky gophers.
These pesky critters won't stop. -'Tain't natural. -There's something wrong.
My pesky stepsister is biting.
Control pesky rumors, for a quiet life.
You are so pesky, Zheglov.
I am not pesky but fair.
Ran off with her pesky riding instructor.
Gotta stay on top of those pesky squeaks.
That sort of pesky nonsense.
I'm sure the planet will think of something. What would you do if you were the planet trying to defend against this pesky, troublesome species?

News and current affairs

Indeed, it was the envy of many Westerners, who were fed up with self-interested lobbying, pesky labor unions, and meddling politicians.
Developing-country governments will be only too pleased to borrow without the pesky conditions that the World Bank and existing regional development banks typically attach to their loans.
Perhaps he also thought that, well ahead in the polls, he did not have to bother to engage the pesky fellow who imagined replacing him in the White House.
Only a few pesky obstacles--the UN, and the Iraqi people--stand in their way.
For as it does, China is using its colossal financial firepower to expand its strategic position on the continent, without linking aid and investment to pesky demands for good governance.
The Americans are happy that India's pesky left, reduced to a paltry 24 seats, has been all but eliminated from national government.

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