harassment
IPA: hɝˈæsmʌnt
noun
- Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.
- Deliberate pestering or intimidation.
- (military) The use of repeated small-scale attacks to wear down an enemy force.
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Examples of "harassment" in Sentences
- The stalking and harassment continued.
- He was polite, and in the face of harassment.
- Most victims of the harassment and ostracism survive.
- By the way, your accusation of harassment is repugnant.
- That is intense harassment of the most despicable kind.
- Bishonen was the victim of targeted misogynist harassment.
- It's counterproductive to the project to further encourage the harassment.
- LEMON: Filmmaker Michael Moore says he's facing what he calls harassment from the Bush administration.
- Mr. Stavis later admitted in testimony that the word "harassment" was used by him, and not Mr. Jackson.
- Rape is never to be defended, but I think the term harassment is too broad and is being abused in this situation.
- The group refers to what it calls harassment and arbitrary arrests ofcivil society activistsand political opponents.
- By the mid-2000s, he found himself the defendant in a series of what he calls harassment lawsuits, filed by people he said had ties to the security agencies.
- Etiquette is being rewritten, the word harassment has taken on a new meaning, training books for office protocol and politically correct phrasing are everywhere.
- Of particular concern is the expansion of the term harassment to include “harassment by communication,” which means a person can be convicted on the basis of spoken words alone.19
- Story by Charlsie Dewey, courtesy of The Windy City Times Robert Klein Engler, a former adjunct professor at Roosevelt University, wants to tell his story, and with the word harassment lingering arou...
- Robert Klein Engler, a former adjunct professor at Roosevelt University, wants to tell his story, and with the word harassment lingering around his name it is not hard to understand why he is deeply concerned with clearing his reputation.