adjective
troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
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harassed working mothers
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a harried expression
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her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions
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the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
• Similar to: ↑troubled
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adj
worried, anxious, agitated, troubled, bothered, distressed, harassed, hard-pressed, pressured, pressurized, plagued, tormented, ravaged, beset
COLLOQ. hassled
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▶ adjective HARASSED, beleaguered, flustered, agitated, bothered, vexed, beset, plagued; informal hassled, up against it.
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adjective : beset by disturbing problems or anxieties : harassed
as harried as innkeepers coping with a full house — Mary McGrory
a rather harried journalist trying to produce a maximum of copy — Edmund Wilson
Useful english dictionary. 2012.