Besetting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BESETTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• BESET, to assail
• (of a problem or difficulty) trouble (someone or something) persistently
• surround and harass
• hem in
• be covered or studded with
ADJECTIVE:
• tempting, harassing, or assailing
• Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

Words related to BESETTING

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How to use BESETTING in a sentence

• We have looked on while most of the people in this history worked through night to light in the moral perplexities besetting them.
• My besetting sin is a want of that self-respect which she has in excess.
• To say the truth, not the smallest of the besetting vices of Mr.
• Avarice is the besetting sin of the Israelite, and here his slaves are taxed beyond endurance.
• It was no time for hesitation, and in any case hesitation is not one of my besetting sins.
• Echo-augury! Words heard in an unexpected quarter, but applying marvellously well to the besetting difficulty of the moment.
• She sometimes suspected pity as her one besetting sin.
• It says we are all idolaters, and reminds me of my besetting sins in that direction.
• They will be personally dealt with, and placed as far as possible in circumstances that shall put them beyond the reach of their besetting temptation.
• Then the besetting passion is the father of an innumerable progeny of evil.
• The only other anxiety besetting him arose from the loss of the ring.
• The difficulties besetting the path of knowledge appeared to be insurmountable.
• It finds pain besetting nearly every step of its advance, and the constant shadow of its existence is sorrow.
• And as he would have been but for his besetting sin.
• Julia had been such a besetting thought in his mind that he had retained of her an exaggerated impression.
• I will not tell you what I thought of the sea, because I should fall into my besetting sin of enthusiasm.
• It seemed to her that Jessie could too easily throw off the trouble besetting them all.
• The ascetic expressions found in their letters grew directly out of the perils besetting them and their expectation of the speedy end of the world.
• Extravagance is the besetting sin of New York society.
• So there was this nerve-racking pall of gloom hanging over all, and to this was added the hard physical work of keeping to a difficult trail, with danger besetting on every hand.
• Excessive water drinking on the march is the besetting sin of the inexperienced soldier.
• The Son of God who cast out those devils can deliver you from your besetting sin.
• His old besetting doubts and scruples began to awake.
• His confessor wasted admonitions on his besetting sin.
• Douglas, noble and disinterested as ever, rose superior to the weakness that she felt was besetting her.
• OF FIRST IMPORTANCE It is well for each soul, in the multiplicity of questions besetting him, to deliberately face them and determine what is of first importance.
• The difficulties besetting Colonel Phillips were more than matched by those besetting General Steele.
• VII ARROGANCE What is arrogance? To begin with, it is the besetting sin of young men who have begun to prosper by their own exertions in the affairs of the world.
• Never has hypocrisy, the besetting vice of this age, been so mercilessly exposed as in the works of Dickens.

Similar words containing BESETT without suffix ing

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