Associations to the word «Harassment»

Wiktionary

HARASSMENT, noun. Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.
HARASSMENT, noun. Deliberate pestering or annoying.

Dictionary definition

HARASSMENT, noun. A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors".
HARASSMENT, noun. The act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne