Accost

You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board her, woo her, assail her. ❋ Unknown (1601)

BTW, the first two definitions of 'accost' from dictionary. com: ❋ Unknown (2009)

To the extent any of these are discourteous, I as one on the “offended” side would probably accost the discourteous one with a jovial “Hi,” especially if there were a natural way to broach the “offense”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sorry to accost you, but there's something I felt I should tell you, she said, with a concerned expression. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dozens of black-hatted men jeer and physically accost the girls almost daily, claiming their very presence is a provocation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She detested the club scene since every time she had ever ventured into one, some rude man had tried to accost her on the dance floor. ❋ Cheryl Faye (2011)

I accost strangers on airplanes to show them how dandy it is to load thousands of pages including this newspaper onto something the size of a shirt cardboard. ❋ Scott Simon (2011)

Characterizing Jews as cerebral nomads, submissive and victimized by nature, he almost seems to hate and accost them as a means to elicit their retaliation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chalkie frequented the seaside towns during the holidays, and the idea was that readers, armed with a photograph carefully framed so as to obscure his true identity, were required to find and accost him. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The one where I was put at a table in front of the store, expected to accost every customer entering the place. ❋ Melanie Benjamin (2011)

The stage was set to accost the invisibility or anomie of gay people in the church and synagogue, military (as mandatory testing for HIV became a major battle) and in the schools as ACT UP members fought to include sex education in the curriculum and employment discrimination. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, actually, I chose not to accost people during their dinner, but I did end up asking about 300 people both inside education and outside education what they thought the purpose of public education was. ❋ Heather Wolpert-Gawron (2010)

We also spotted a SUSPICIOUSLY PALE young lady applying for employment, but she MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED before we could accost her! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Use private security goons to accost students (who were not, as predicted, permitted to speak); ❋ Unknown (2009)

They saw him slouch for'ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I would daresay that most of us would not go accost a stranger at a party or even someone who knows us well with endless accounts of our kids stories (a blog doesnt count cause you dont have to read it) without so much as a ‘So whats going on in your life?’. toyfoto Said, ❋ Unknown (2009)

We spent less than an hour with Deion, but in that time we saw him take delivery of a floor-length mink coat, tape a segment in which he presented Christmas gifts to a group of angelic children while in character as “Sanders Claus,” and playfully accost former NFL coach Jerry Glanville, demanding that Glanville turn over a sack full of biscuits from a Popeyes fast-food restaurant. ❋ Lang Whitaker (2011)

nissanzxman [gets] accosted because he's a [damn] [degenerate]... ❋ Nester (2004)

I could hear Boris accosting that [perimeter] for like 10 minutes before I actually heard stool splashing into the bowl! Before perimeter is [frosted], perimeter must be accosted! Aggressive men waited outside of the communal restroom, ready to accost [the perimeter] one by one. [The perimeter] was accosted multiple times by a large amount of guys. The perimeter was accosted by three gang members in the public restroom. ❋ GerthPaul (2022)