as in approached
to approach and speak to (someone) often in an angry, aggressive, or unwanted way
He was accosted by peddlers selling touristy trinkets on the street. She was so famous that people would accost her on the street and ask for an autograph.
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Recent Examples of accosted
The male and female victims were accosted by more than a dozen armed people and taken against their will to another unit inside the same complex, Chamberlain said.
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
When his father Winston (McCarthy, 62) brings Brandon to a rehab facility in a rural area, the father-son duo are violently accosted — and Winston is wounded — while stopping for gas.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Penny accosted Neely on the subway after Neely made death threats against other passengers.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2024
In one moment, Yersultan is playfully accosted by his best friend Damir (Damir Daurenuly), as the duo catch-up and argue while roughhousing in lengthy takes — the closest the movie comes to allowing its young characters a sense of energetic freedom.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
Brian Thompson, 50, was accosted outside of the Hilton Hotel in midtown, and later pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital.
—Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
In a scene at the end of the first episode, Noah finishes giving a sermon and is accosted by mothers and aunts introducing their single daughters and nieces to the handsome, single rabbi.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
When his father Winston (McCarthy, 62) brings Brandon to a rehab facility in a rural area, the father-son duo are violently accosted — and Winston is wounded — while stopping for gas.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Penny accosted Neely on the subway after Neely made death threats against other passengers.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2024
In one moment, Yersultan is playfully accosted by his best friend Damir (Damir Daurenuly), as the duo catch-up and argue while roughhousing in lengthy takes — the closest the movie comes to allowing its young characters a sense of energetic freedom.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
Brian Thompson, 50, was accosted outside of the Hilton Hotel in midtown, and later pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital.
—Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
In a scene at the end of the first episode, Noah finishes giving a sermon and is accosted by mothers and aunts introducing their single daughters and nieces to the handsome, single rabbi.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
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