harassing

adj

1. Characterized by harassment; pestering, intimidating, besetting.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of harass

noun

1. Harassment.

   “Sometimes we observe these wretched peasants, driven to despair by the harassings of the Boyars, commit the useless imprudence of going to the capital, and, under the windows of the prince, with loud cries, require him to hear their claims.”