nag Betydning & definition

Eksempler på nag

• Second, there is the nagging feeling that, far from being helpful, such a proliferation of 'oughts' would succeed only in further confounding decision-making.

• The old nag is the voice of women and the downtrodden whose struggles will not dramatically change, regardless of political slogans.

• In family interaction, for example, the case study is about nagging; in the workplace domain, about male banter and boasting in a stockbroker's office.

• Upon servants devolves the responsibility for speaking what must be spoken - illicit desires, nagging suspicions, scandalous behavior - if the community is to function healthily because openly and honestly.

• It tends, however, to leave room for nagging doubts about whether some less common but nonetheless crucial usage is still lurking tantalizingly in the unseen data.

• Some even condemn the practice of voting, because, they say, if one's own candidate loses, the defeat will continue to nag oneself even against one's best intentions.

• On the whole, the old nag tends to hobble along rather than gallop.

• They nagged for a pedestrian crossing and were turned down.