nagging — OET

nagging

adjective

1 I wanted to get away from my nagging parents:

complaining, criticizing, grumbling, fault-finding, moaning, scolding, carping, shrewish, cavilling.

2 there was a nagging pain in his chest:

persistent, continuous, lingering, niggling, troublesome, unrelenting, unremitting, unabating;

aching, painful, distressing, worrying.

nagging Oxford Dictionary of English