adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lingering/nagging doubt (= one that does not go away )
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I still had a nagging doubt that there might be something seriously wrong.
a nagging pain (= felt all the time )
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Rob felt fine, apart from a nagging pain in his left wrist.
a nagging suspicion (= one that you have all the time )
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I had a nagging suspicion that Colin wasn't telling me the whole truth.
a nagging worry (= one that you keep worrying about )
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She had a little nagging worry in the back of her mind about how Mickey would react.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
doubt
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In everything he did there was a touch of charisma, and, following everything he did, a nagging doubt .
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Her kinship with the respected Goldie apparently quells any nagging doubts .
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The post-war years brought nagging doubts for Mary, when she was not surrounded by her now four healthy children.
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Years of experience have left him with nagging doubts about the seemingly perfect customers.
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Inside him there was a little nagging doubt .
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That nagging doubt , the feeling that something was missing in the woman she was supposed to be.
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Only a handful of nagging doubts remained, locked at the back of his mind and these soon seemed hazy and foolish.
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This is always a nagging doubt about any survey-style research.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I can't seem to shake off this nagging cold.
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I have a nagging feeling that I forgot to do something.
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She had a nagging worry that she hadn't done enough to prepare.
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There are still some nagging doubts about the future of the company, though for now it is doing well.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I have this nagging suspicion that my luck as a first-timer tour group leader can not hold.
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But there is no nagging sense of anachronism.
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I sound like a nagging father.
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In everything he did there was a touch of charisma, and, following everything he did, a nagging doubt.
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It's sometimes worth asking that nagging little voice what is really the worst thing that can happen now?
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The post-war years brought nagging doubts for Mary, when she was not surrounded by her now four healthy children.
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There was abdominal pain without a doubt and that nagging temperature of 102.5° - that was damn like a wire.