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Definition of nagging : 1. Fault- finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache.
2. of Nag

Synonyms:

achy, pain, ill-natured, sore, hurtful, aching, shrewish, smarting, afflictive, painful

driving, obliging, impelling, browbeating, dictating, intimidating, coercing, goading, dragooning, inciting, pressuring, galvanizing, pushing, pressing, bullying, mandating, fomenting, motivating, bulldozing, stressing, stimulating, propelling, urging, hijacking, compelling, causing, daunting, sparking

inflaming, irritating, aggravating, needling, harrying, troubling, envenoming, disturbing, arousing, exasperating, infuriating, exacerbating, grating, harassing, teasing, pestering, fretting, bothering, vexing, upsetting, enraging, annoying, tormenting, antagonizing, baiting, badgering, rankling, hassling, perturbing, discomposing, chafing, irking, bedeviling, peeving

cursing, scolding, swearing, cussing, blaspheming

Usage examples:

• It amused me, but I had a nagging little thought in the back of my mind that all this etiquette would become boring after a while. - "The Lost Door", Dorothy Quick.
• " There should be a law to put down nagging wives the same as biting dogs," said Mrs. Quiggin. - "Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon 1893", Hall Caine.
• He did not like the Reformatory a bit, they were nagging him all the time. - "Studies in Forensic Psychiatry", Bernard Glueck.