Pesky
adjective
Annoying or bothersome.
The pesky mosquitoes kept buzzing around my ear.
Often appears as...
- pesky insects
- pesky problem
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Disapproving
adjective
Annoying or bothersome.
The pesky mosquitoes kept buzzing around my ear.
Often appears as...
- pesky insects
- pesky problem
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Informal Usage
Used in casual or humorous conversation, not in formal writing or speech.
That pesky squirrel keeps stealing bird food from the feeder.
Pro Tip 2/3Mild Frustration
Expresses a light, non-threatening type of irritation or nuisance, often with a feeling of exasperation.
I have to reset my password again? What a pesky task!
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
While pesky indicates annoyance, it's not used for serious problems, but rather minor inconveniences.
I'm trying to read with all these pesky notifications popping up.
Pro Tip 1/3Informal Usage
Used in casual or humorous conversation, not in formal writing or speech.
That pesky squirrel keeps stealing bird food from the feeder.
Pro Tip 2/3Mild Frustration
Expresses a light, non-threatening type of irritation or nuisance, often with a feeling of exasperation.
I have to reset my password again? What a pesky task!
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
While pesky indicates annoyance, it's not used for serious problems, but rather minor inconveniences.
I'm trying to read with all these pesky notifications popping up.
Pro Tip 1/3Informal Usage
Used in casual or humorous conversation, not in formal writing or speech.
That pesky squirrel keeps stealing bird food from the feeder.
Pro Tip 2/3Mild Frustration
Expresses a light, non-threatening type of irritation or nuisance, often with a feeling of exasperation.
I have to reset my password again? What a pesky task!
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
While pesky indicates annoyance, it's not used for serious problems, but rather minor inconveniences.
I'm trying to read with all these pesky notifications popping up.
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Can you cheat death by...
but then it would take another 4 rolls to get around the pesky snake at 88. In fact, there’s no path that can get you to the exit in 5 moves using exclusively ladders. So where does that leave you? Snakes. It’s counterintuitive to make moves that take you farther away
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Hunting for dinosaurs...
You would never guess that they would amount to anything special, and they probably wouldn't have, were it not for that pesky asteroid. Now, make a thousand more worlds and a thousand more solar systems and let them run. You will never get the same result.
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Why we choke under...
can help us take our mind off those pesky details. It's also true that practicing under conditions that we're going to perform under -- closing the gap between training and competition can help us get used to that feeling of all eyes on us.
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Flesh-Eating Fire Ants PIPE...
South have gotten a bad rap in our world most people know them as those pesky critters with a sting that burns like crazy but fire ants embody some of our society's most cherished ideals first of all they are incredibly strong able to
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Red Fire Ants PIPE National...
most people know them has those pesky critters with a sting that burns like crazy but fire ants embody some of our society's most cherished ideals first of all they are incredibly strong able to carry ten times their body weight can
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A political party for...
Well, it's that pesky business of the gender pay gap. Nowhere in the world do women earn the same as men. And that is never going to change unless we have more women at the top in the boardroom. We have plenty of laws;
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Why wildfires have...
Public support for these tools is poor. Prescribed burning and managed wildfires are not well-supported. We actually all simply want fires to magically go away and take that pesky smoke with them, don't we?
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Got problem? Think...
look right you'll see masses in masses of greenery that's water hyacinth so we might look at this is just a pesky weeds but to Mike organoid and his team they look at this and they see cooking gas in their
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Brain Magic - The Scam...
okay done great cheers Cheers this sneaky little bet exploits the brains tendency to focus on the big picture all while forgetting the pesky little details would you have fallen for it
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A Dangerous Rescue PIPE...
hi Bonnie at last she's down and seemingly no worse for her venture pesky who risked his life in a tree higher than a block of flats but he takes this all in his
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Can you cheat death by...
but then it would take another 4 rolls to get around the pesky snake at 88. In fact, there’s no path that can get you to the exit in 5 moves using exclusively ladders. So where does that leave you? Snakes. It’s counterintuitive to make moves that take you farther away
Video examples
Hunting for dinosaurs...
You would never guess that they would amount to anything special, and they probably wouldn't have, were it not for that pesky asteroid. Now, make a thousand more worlds and a thousand more solar systems and let them run. You will never get the same result.
Video examples
Why we choke under...
can help us take our mind off those pesky details. It's also true that practicing under conditions that we're going to perform under -- closing the gap between training and competition can help us get used to that feeling of all eyes on us.
Video examples
Flesh-Eating Fire Ants PIPE...
South have gotten a bad rap in our world most people know them as those pesky critters with a sting that burns like crazy but fire ants embody some of our society's most cherished ideals first of all they are incredibly strong able to
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Red Fire Ants PIPE National...
most people know them has those pesky critters with a sting that burns like crazy but fire ants embody some of our society's most cherished ideals first of all they are incredibly strong able to carry ten times their body weight can
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A political party for...
Well, it's that pesky business of the gender pay gap. Nowhere in the world do women earn the same as men. And that is never going to change unless we have more women at the top in the boardroom. We have plenty of laws;
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Why wildfires have...
Public support for these tools is poor. Prescribed burning and managed wildfires are not well-supported. We actually all simply want fires to magically go away and take that pesky smoke with them, don't we?
Video examples
Got problem? Think...
look right you'll see masses in masses of greenery that's water hyacinth so we might look at this is just a pesky weeds but to Mike organoid and his team they look at this and they see cooking gas in their
Video examples
Brain Magic - The Scam...
okay done great cheers Cheers this sneaky little bet exploits the brains tendency to focus on the big picture all while forgetting the pesky little details would you have fallen for it
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A Dangerous Rescue PIPE...
hi Bonnie at last she's down and seemingly no worse for her venture pesky who risked his life in a tree higher than a block of flats but he takes this all in his
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Heidi Roizen
American Businessman
You know what somebody else's fundraise metrics are to you? Irrelevant. You know what your own last round post was? Irrelevant. Yes, I know, not legally, because of those pesky rights and preferences. But emotionally, trust me: it is irrelevant now. We even have a name for this - valuation nostalgia.
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Richard Trumka
American Activist
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
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Gretchen Rubin
American Author
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
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Karen Salmansohn
American Author
Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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Jason Becker
American Musician
I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.
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Stella Young
Australian Comedian
I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.
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Michael Chiklis
American Actor
That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.
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Roger Rees
Welsh Actor
I like working with authors who are a bit pesky.
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Damian Lewis
English Actor
I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Heidi Roizen
American Businessman
You know what somebody else's fundraise metrics are to you? Irrelevant. You know what your own last round post was? Irrelevant. Yes, I know, not legally, because of those pesky rights and preferences. But emotionally, trust me: it is irrelevant now. We even have a name for this - valuation nostalgia.
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Richard Trumka
American Activist
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
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Gretchen Rubin
American Author
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
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Karen Salmansohn
American Author
Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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Jason Becker
American Musician
I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.
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Stella Young
Australian Comedian
I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.
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Michael Chiklis
American Actor
That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.
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Roger Rees
Welsh Actor
I like working with authors who are a bit pesky.
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Damian Lewis
English Actor
I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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