There's a pesky wrinkle on my shirt that I just can't get the iron to remove.
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Pesky
//ˈpɛski//
Synonyms for "pesky" (72 found)
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Synonyms
3 entriesderived
2 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- досаден adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- отегчителен adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Czech
1 entries- otravný adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Dutch
4 entries- irritant adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- lastig adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- rottig adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- vervelend adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Esperanto
1 entries- incitema adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Finnish
1 entries- ärsyttävä adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
French
1 entries- agaçant adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Galician
2 entries- irritante adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- molesto adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
German
4 entries- lästig adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- nervig adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- nervtötend adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- ärgerlich adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Greek
1 entries- εκνευριστικός adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Ido
2 entries- tedanto adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- tedero adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Italian
2 entries- fastidioso adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- molesto adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Macedonian
2 entries- до́саден adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- здо́девен adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Norwegian
1 entries- plagsom adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Polish
2 entries- cholerny adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- upierdliwy adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Portuguese
2 entries- chato adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- irritante adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Romanian
2 entries- agasant adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- enervant adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Russian
4 entries- доку́чливый adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- навя́зчивый adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- надое́дливый adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- назо́йливый adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Swedish
1 entries- irriterande adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Turkish
3 entries- can sıkıcı adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- nahoş adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
- sinir bozucu adj (annoying, troublesome, irritating)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"Luigi, look! It's from Link. Let me read it: 'Dear pesky plumbers, I'm under attack by the evil forces of spaghetti! Save me!' We gotta save Link!" "I'm the traitor, and you must die!" "Shit!"
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That pesky imp must be punished.
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All of today’s nuclear power plants make energy by the splitting of uranium atoms — which creates a lot of useful heat but also a lot of dangerous and deadly nuclear waste. The opposite process — fusion — also creates heat but with hardly any pesky radiation. The problem is that fusion is way more difficult to achieve. Scientists from 35 nations, including the United States, Russia and China, are painstakingly trying to solve the problem.
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