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  • adjective comparative form of pesky: more pesky

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Examples

  • Next comes the Living River Trail, starting with a trout pool populated by fish, serenely floating wood ducks, turtles and other peskier species such as "giant toe biters" (water bugs).

    Where the Wild Things Are 2009

  • Starlings, however, are often seen as peskier creatures.

    In Rome, Starling Stalkers Try to Scare the Birds Out of Town 2008

  • By the same logic, if I, as a botanist, tell someone exactly how to make ricin from castor beans, knowing that they need a method to kill one of their peskier in-laws, then it's nothing to do with me if the in-laws die of ricin poisoning.

    Beggars the Imagination (and the Republic) 2007

  • By the same logic, if I, as a botanist, tell someone exactly how to make ricin from castor beans, knowing that they need a method to kill one of their peskier in-laws, then it's nothing to do with me if the in-laws die of ricin poisoning.

    Beggars the Imagination (and the Republic) 2007

  • Orbuch suggests that by sprinkling more goodness around, couples will ultimately feel better about one another and be in a stronger position to tackle larger, peskier relationship issues head on.

    Winnipeg Sun 2010

  • Privacy issues aside, such developments could eliminate some of the peskier problems of virtually attending a physical conference.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010

  • Orbuch suggests that by sprinkling more goodness around, couples will ultimately feel better about one another and be in a stronger position to tackle larger, peskier relationship issues head on.

    Toronto Sun 2010

  • Orbuch suggests that by sprinkling more goodness around, couples will ultimately feel better about one another and be in a stronger position to tackle larger, peskier relationship issues head on.

    London Free Press 2010

  • Sometimes I just don't have anything worthwhile to say (all the time, some of my peskier readers would say), and since I'm my own boss, when that happens, I just tell myself to take a break.

    The Athens NEWS :: Athens, Ohio's only locally-owned newspaper :: Home 2009

  • Sometimes I just don't have anything worthwhile to say (all the time, some of my peskier readers would say), and since I'm my own boss, when that happens, I just tell myself to take a break.

    The Athens NEWS :: Athens, Ohio's only locally-owned newspaper :: Home 2009

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