Nag
verb
To constantly complain or criticize.
Children often nag their parents to buy them toys.
Often appears as...
- nag about something
- nag someone to do something
noun
A person who constantly complains or criticizes.
She's a constant nag about housework.
Often appears as...
- become a nag
- a constant nag
noun
An old or weak horse.
The old nag could barely trot.
Often appears as...
- old nag
- tired nag
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Disapproving
verb
To constantly complain or criticize.
Children often nag their parents to buy them toys.
Often appears as...
- nag about something
- nag someone to do something
noun
A person who constantly complains or criticizes.
She's a constant nag about housework.
Often appears as...
- become a nag
- a constant nag
noun
An old or weak horse.
The old nag could barely trot.
Often appears as...
- old nag
- tired nag
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'nag' suggests annoyance and can sound critical if used to describe someone's behavior.
Don't nag me about cleaning, I'll do it later.
Pro Tip 2/3Repetitive Action
'Nag' emphasizes repetitive complaining or requests which can be irritating.
My brother won't stop nagging me for video game money.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Bad
Sometimes 'nag' can be seen positively, as showing persistent concern.
My fitness app nags me to exercise, and it's really helped me stay on track.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'nag' suggests annoyance and can sound critical if used to describe someone's behavior.
Don't nag me about cleaning, I'll do it later.
Pro Tip 2/3Repetitive Action
'Nag' emphasizes repetitive complaining or requests which can be irritating.
My brother won't stop nagging me for video game money.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Bad
Sometimes 'nag' can be seen positively, as showing persistent concern.
My fitness app nags me to exercise, and it's really helped me stay on track.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'nag' suggests annoyance and can sound critical if used to describe someone's behavior.
Don't nag me about cleaning, I'll do it later.
Pro Tip 2/3Repetitive Action
'Nag' emphasizes repetitive complaining or requests which can be irritating.
My brother won't stop nagging me for video game money.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Bad
Sometimes 'nag' can be seen positively, as showing persistent concern.
My fitness app nags me to exercise, and it's really helped me stay on track.
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Thinking your way out of...
identified and showed it other the other students as a matter of fact we decide to start a little impostor support group we started meeting and talking about big intellectual frauds and how we're fooling all of our professors and everything went great for about three weeks and that's about the time I started to have this nagging sense that
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Mick Mountz: What...
So we said, there's just got to be a better way to do this. Existing material handling was set up to pump pallets and cases of goo to retail stores. Of course Webvan went out of business, and about a year and a half later, I was still noodling on this problem. It was still nagging at me. And I started thinking about it again.
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Young-ha Kim: Be an...
And in this moment, the nagging devil disappears. So I can say It's not the hundreds of reasons why one can't be an artist, but rather, the one reason one must be that makes us artists. Why we cannot be something is not important. Most artists became artists because of the one reason.
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Jon Gosier: The problem...
But over the years, as I have thought about these technologies and the things that I work on, a question kind of nags in the back of my mind, which is, what if we're wrong about the virtues of technology, and if it sometimes actively hurts the communities that we're intending to help?
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Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
moment and she's exceptionally large isn't she and not in the not in the large manner as that big buffalo bull but and the fact that maybe she's going to have a car soon maybe that's why she's nagging behind the hood hopefully these boys will stay with her to help
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How to Raise Successful...
and act like our kid's concierge and personal handler and secretary. And then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be,
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The gift and power of...
Life's beauty is inseparable from its fragility. We are young until we are not. We walk down the streets sexy until one day we realize that we are unseen. We nag our children and one day realize
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What is imposter...
Even after writing eleven books and winning several prestigious awards, Maya Angelou couldn’t escape the nagging doubt that she hadn’t really earned her accomplishments.
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Embracing otherness,...
even before being a girl. I was a noticeable nobody. Another world was opening up around this performance and dancing. That nagging dread of self-hood
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These Two Rhinos Are The...
now only nagging and phatu survive and to keep them safe from poachers they must live out their days under constant armed guard
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Thinking your way out of...
identified and showed it other the other students as a matter of fact we decide to start a little impostor support group we started meeting and talking about big intellectual frauds and how we're fooling all of our professors and everything went great for about three weeks and that's about the time I started to have this nagging sense that
Video examples
Mick Mountz: What...
So we said, there's just got to be a better way to do this. Existing material handling was set up to pump pallets and cases of goo to retail stores. Of course Webvan went out of business, and about a year and a half later, I was still noodling on this problem. It was still nagging at me. And I started thinking about it again.
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Young-ha Kim: Be an...
And in this moment, the nagging devil disappears. So I can say It's not the hundreds of reasons why one can't be an artist, but rather, the one reason one must be that makes us artists. Why we cannot be something is not important. Most artists became artists because of the one reason.
Video examples
Jon Gosier: The problem...
But over the years, as I have thought about these technologies and the things that I work on, a question kind of nags in the back of my mind, which is, what if we're wrong about the virtues of technology, and if it sometimes actively hurts the communities that we're intending to help?
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
moment and she's exceptionally large isn't she and not in the not in the large manner as that big buffalo bull but and the fact that maybe she's going to have a car soon maybe that's why she's nagging behind the hood hopefully these boys will stay with her to help
Video examples
How to Raise Successful...
and act like our kid's concierge and personal handler and secretary. And then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be,
Video examples
The gift and power of...
Life's beauty is inseparable from its fragility. We are young until we are not. We walk down the streets sexy until one day we realize that we are unseen. We nag our children and one day realize
Video examples
What is imposter...
Even after writing eleven books and winning several prestigious awards, Maya Angelou couldn’t escape the nagging doubt that she hadn’t really earned her accomplishments.
Video examples
Embracing otherness,...
even before being a girl. I was a noticeable nobody. Another world was opening up around this performance and dancing. That nagging dread of self-hood
Video examples
These Two Rhinos Are The...
now only nagging and phatu survive and to keep them safe from poachers they must live out their days under constant armed guard
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Quote examples
Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.
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Soha Ali Khan
Indian Actress
Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don't match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can't praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.
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Steve Harvey
American Actor
I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.
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Helena Bonham Carter
British Actress
Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.
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Leslie Jamison
American Novelist
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
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Don Rickles
American Comedian
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
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Nina Simone
American Musician
You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.
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Melania Trump
American First Lady
I'm not that kind of wife who would say, 'Learn this' or 'Learn that.' I'm not a nagging wife.
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Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Kevin Hart
American Actor
All men hate the nagging.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.
Quote examples
Soha Ali Khan
Indian Actress
Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don't match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can't praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.
Quote examples
Steve Harvey
American Actor
I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.
Quote examples
Helena Bonham Carter
British Actress
Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.
Quote examples
Leslie Jamison
American Novelist
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
Quote examples
Don Rickles
American Comedian
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
Quote examples
Nina Simone
American Musician
You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.
Quote examples
Melania Trump
American First Lady
I'm not that kind of wife who would say, 'Learn this' or 'Learn that.' I'm not a nagging wife.
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Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Kevin Hart
American Actor
All men hate the nagging.
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