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Pronunciation: [t͡ʃˈɪvɪd] (IPA)

Chivvied is a word used to describe the act of urging or pestering someone to do something. While it may be a commonly used term, there are various other synonyms that have the same meaning. Some of the possible synonyms for chivvied include "annoyed", "hounded", "bothered", "pestered", "nagged", "harassed", and "badgered". These words are often used interchangeably to convey the same message. Regardless of the word used, the intention is always to spur the individual into action or convince them to take a particular course of action. Use these synonyms if you feel like you're overusing chivvied or just to vary your language.
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Usage examples for Chivvied

Nurses chivvied about with little squeals of laughter as they bumped into each other out of the shadow world, but not losing their heads or their hands, with so much work to do.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
What wi' wadin' to the knees in the trench mud, getting soaked through wi' rain, not 'aving a decent meal all day, crawlin' about in mud an' muck, an' gettin' chivvied an' chased all over the landscape wi' shells an' shrapnel an' machine-guns an' rifles, I've just about 'ad enough o' this King an' Country game.
"Between the Lines"
Boyd Cable
Two monitresses stood in the cloak-room and sternly chivvied the younger girls to hasten their steps homewards.
"The Head Girl at the Gables"
Angela Brazil

Famous quotes with Chivvied

  • Yes, there was Edgar, whom I starved and hunted until I was tired of it: then I chased him up a back alley one night, and knocked out those annoying brains of his. And there was Walt, whom I chivvied and battered from place to place, and made a paralytic of him: and him, too, I labelled offensive and lewd and lascivious and indecent. Then later there was Mark, whom I frightened into disguising himself in a clown's suit, so that nobody might suspect him to be a maker of literature: indeed, I frightened him so that he hid away the greater part of what he had made until after he was dead, and I could not get at him. That was a disgusting trick to play on me, I consider.
    James Branch Cabell

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