0 to criticize or complain often in an annoying way, especially in order to try and make someone do something:
1 someone who is always criticizing or complaining, especially in order to try and make someone do something:
2 a horse, especially one that is too old to be useful:
3 to annoy a person by making continual criticisms or suggestions:
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.
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