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Molest   /məlˈɛst/   Listen
Molest

verb
(past & past part. molested; pres. part. molesting)
1.
Harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to.
2.
Annoy continually or chronically.  Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, plague, provoke.  "This man harasses his female co-workers"



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"Molest" Quotes from Famous Books



... two, and I keep two myself," said he. "But my daughter shall have a room to herself even here; and if you molest her I'll brain you ...
— A Perilous Secret • Charles Reade
... over-long, and the wish to roam is in my veins again. I'll see the world once more, and when I weary of my vagrancy I can withdraw to my lands of Aquila, and in that corner of Tuscany, too mean to draw a conqueror's eye, none will molest me, and I shall rest. Babbiano, my friend, shall know me no more after to-night. When I am gone, and the people realise that they may not have what they would, they may rest content perhaps with what they may." And he waved a hand in the direction of ...
— Love-at-Arms • Raphael Sabatini
... says Nell. 'Why he's lurkin' about outside som'ers in a furtive, surreptitious way; but he don't molest us none. Which, now I remembers, Dave don't even come near us ...
— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis
... and thus prevent the officer from ascertaining the condition of things on board of the Goldwing, the Sylph would trouble him no more. If the business on which she came after Dory was a matter of life and death, Captain Gildrock would not be likely to molest him after ...
— All Adrift - or The Goldwing Club • Oliver Optic
... stories before, but it was most ridiculously absurd to see that great mountain of flesh crying like a whipped child, go down on his knees and quietly receive his burden without any attempt to hurt or molest his keeper. ...
— Vellenaux - A Novel • Edmund William Forrest


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