Crossword-Solution: PESKY 5 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Pesky a. Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an
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We have 50 clues for the answer “PESKY”

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Irksome, like a fly 1 answer
Annoying, as a gnat 1 answer
Annoying, as a fly 1 answer
Annoying, as an insect 1 answer
Annoying, like a gnat 1 answer
Annoying, like gnats 1 answer
Annoying: Colloq. 1 answer
Annoyingly troublesome 1 answer
Bothersome, as mosquitos 1 answer
Hard to get rid of 1 answer
Hard to shake 1 answer
Like a fly 1 answer
Like gnats and pantry ants 1 answer
Twerpish 1 answer
Troublesome: Colloq. 1 answer
Negative adjective in infomercials 1 answer
Like insects 1 answer
Like a mosquito 1 answer
Like mosquitoes 2 answers
Like gnats 2 answers
Like Dennis the Menace 3 answers
Persistently annoying 3 answers
Like a gnat 3 answers
Nettlesome 7 answers
plaguy 8 answers
A BIT OF A BOTHER 10 answers
CHILD ANNOYING 10 answers
ANNOYING CHILD 10 answers
BOTHERSOME BEDMATE BOTHER A 10 answers
DENNIS THE MENACE DOG 10 answers
DENNIS THE MENACE CAT 10 answers
DENNIS THE MENACE ARTIST 10 answers
Annoyingly insensitive 11 answers
Annoying and unpleasant 11 answers
ANNOYING BUZZER 11 answers
ANNOYING KID 12 answers
Dennis the Menace 13 answers
bothersome 31 answers
Vexing. 31 answers
trying 34 answers
meddling 39 answers
Irritating 43 answers
aggravating 52 answers
Impish 54 answers
disturbing 55 answers
Annoying 65 answers
irksome 74 answers
Vexatious 79 answers
troublesome 82 answers
Unpleasant 87 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PESKY (5)

Although Albert and William Robert were younger than I, and at times little more than pesky little brothers, still I could easily see that they both had something to be desired far above that which looked back at me from my mirror.
The Life of Me Clarence Edgar Johnson 1996
Let me out and I'll sign your pesky pledge!" Brother Cartwright was fur getting a ladder and letting him climb out right away.
Danny's Own Story Don Marquis 1996
When you git it bilt and a-runnin', you've got to git a man to cum down here and take keer on it, cos it's a-cumin' along hayin' and harvestin' time, and I'll be too durned busy to run down here and open and shet them barn doors every time one of your pesky old trains wants to go through." Love--An indescribable longing, something that existed since Mother Eve was in the apple trust, and will exist until the end of time.
Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories Cal Stewart 1997
But that don’t help the little mean pesky things of day by day that make roughness or smoothness for folks tied together so awful close.
The Virginian Owen Wister 2008
How many does it take to make twelve?” Every few minutes he would remember that he was a pesky redskin, and pick up his stick rifle and tiptoe to the mouth of the cave to rubber for the scouts of the hated paleface.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1999

Quotes with PESKY (3)

Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may n…
C. JoyBell C.
I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write. In order to placate him, especially when I'm endeavoring to write anything as ambitious as a novel, I have to constantly mutter, 'I'm not writing a masterpiece, I'm not writing a masterpiece.'This mantra lulls him into a kind of stupor so that he pays no attention to what I'm doing, because after all, I'm not claiming it's any good. Slowly, and secretly, on…
Rukhsana Khan
I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city's pesky troll problem, and you're not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, 'Gee, thanks for the warning.' It'll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I'm sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can't let you ruin our lives.
Guillermo del Toro Trollhunters
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 84 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).