Valdosta Mayor Pro Tem Alvin Payton, Jr. and Fire Chief Freddie Broome honored VFD Lt. Jeff Talley, Sgt. Wade Briggs and Firefighter Brandon Matheny as the July 2016 Employees of the Month at the July 7 City Council meeting.
: making someone annoyed or irritated. 1  I've been trying to get rid of this pesky cold for weeks. 2  pesky insects. 3  pesky reporters.
In linguistics, pejoration is the downgrading or depreciation of a word's meaning, as when a word with a positive sense develops a negative one. Pejoration is much more common that the opposite process, called amelioration. Here are some examples and observations from other writers: