nagged, ppl. a.
(nægd)
[-ed1.]
That is subject to nagging. Hence, downtrodden, wearied, irritated, annoyed.
| 1893 K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver's Problem ix. 107 Existence was wearing a particularly dismal aspect on that afternoon... He felt ‘nagged’, injured, blue, out of sorts with fate. 1961 M. Spark Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ii. 35 ‘Mary, don't you want to walk tidily?’ ‘Mary,’ said Sandy, ‘stop staring at the brown man.’ The nagged child looked numbly at Sandy and tried to quicken her pace. |