Harried in a sentence as an adjective

It means that the staff is going to be harried and tired. It means that I won't be able to get a reservation for a few months.

It is crazy that most screenings in 2012 are still 3 minutes a year with a harried doctor.

We're small, so it isn't too bad, but it cannot scale, and as the admin becomes more harried as we grow, mistakes will be made. Guaranteed.

Being in the courtroom doesn't make you any less distracted or harried. the lawyers are handling multiple cases at the same time.

Life is going to get a little harried for a little while. It will be survivable -- you're far from the first business this happened to.

"Nguyen wanted to make games for people like himself: busy, harried, always on the move." I pictured how people play," he says, as he taps his iPhone and reaches his other hand in the air."

There are also commercial providers such as Play Barn which will be full of screaming, crying, poorly supervised children and stressed harried parents. This is, for some people, a hellish experience.

Barring an emergency, my philosophy is that a child will be better served in the long run by happy, well-slept parents for 16 hours a day than harried, miserable ones 24 hours a day. Pretty simple really.

Even super harried ED and ICU staff were using them because it was so fast and stick-your-arm-out-in-a-second-while-leaving convenient. I don't think I saw someone _not_ do that.

Why is CS special in that its members need to be harried about selling sugar water, where as everyone else in the supply chain for that sugar water doesn't have to worry?

> And if I ever set off the explosive detector, my first reaction wouldn't be how unfair it was that "harried" employees were "rudely" explaining that my options were leaving or a private pat down. That would seem utterly reasonable to me.

And if I ever set off the explosive detector, my first reaction wouldn't be how unfair it was that "harried" employees were "rudely" explaining that my options were leaving or a private pat down. That would seem utterly reasonable to me.

Probably two different groups of the people, the latter group is likely harried contributors to a project you're asking for help from who doesn't have the benefit of the context for the work you're doing. It's a common thing in mailing lists and IRC. >So Western Digital's backup software interferes with Outlook in funny ways?

As it stands, most legal questions are assembled from disjointed queries into truly awful Westlaw/Lexis databases by tech-illiterate lawyers, harried by their enormous workloads and failing personal lives. The field is crying out for better data sorting and search.

Instead, a harried customer support person answered a confusing question with a nondescript answer. One could paraphrase it as: "Well, Mister Caller, I have no idea what software you are talking about, but if there is any such software on the system, it would be to make sure the system is running properly."

I don't doubt there are ******** patents or that some patent examiners aren't as educated as they should be, but I also don't see any reason to think the examiners are just so harried and untrained that they just shrug their shoulders and assume everything is legit. There are two problems with the current patent system.

I suspect they are being prescribed for diagnosis much more, and the techs are somewhat harried by the stricter schedules. GE's Adventure Series is certainly a good idea, but I think it's easy to forget how important it is for the techs to administer them well, and how an overworked problem may exist for them.

Indeed, one possible consequence of developing the queen early is that it can be harried with tempo by the opponent; that is, he gets to make you respond while making developing moves he wanted to make anyway. However, except in cases of gross incompetence it doesn't lead to your queen being taken, it's just suboptimal.

Since airlines started to nickle and dime travelers for basic services, like luggage, I've definitely noticed a much more harried and long delay with people getting to their seats and getting situated. I used to remember being able to spend quite a bit of time leisurely reading from a magazine or a book, now I'm constantly getting jostled well after we've started to taxi.

I, a distracted and harried developer, will write hundreds of lines of code a day and not think twice about them, whereas each criminal trial is, for some period of time, the subject of undivided attention of at least one judge, two lawyers and a jury. Errors certainly happen, but they're almost certain not to be dominated by errors of simple oversight, which explain the vast majority of bugs.

Harried definitions

adjective

troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"

See also: annoyed harassed pestered vexed