Accosted

Chamberlain accosted the old woman, saying, “What damsel is this?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Since I didn’t want to get accosted is the main reason I hadn’t said anything. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As far as being recognized ( "accosted") in LA ... you're welcome. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Three days later, in a related case (the records are sketchy, but the matching surnames in this small community suggest a link) ,143 Bridget St. Croix (presumably a relative of Ann) complained that on the previous evening she had encountered Thomas Tobin (possibly Ellen's brother and the victim of Ann's rock-throwing episodes), who had "accosted" her and said, "now you vagabond [w] hore I have you." ❋ Unknown (2005)

As a libertarian and strong believer of individual rights and free markets, I often get "accosted" by folks saying that I must want the environment just to go to hell. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I certainly wouldn't put up with being 'accosted' by foreigners who have no business investing in my country and whose noses deserve to be broken for their disregard of my high social status. ❋ Horace Jeffery Hodges (2005)

He was morose to all that stood in awe of him, and caressed all such as accosted him with familiarity .... ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

In another instance, Hodson alleged, a female visiting professor complained that Reader had aggressively "accosted" her in a hallway about her application for a job at Scripps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his recent memoir, Our Father Who Art in Bed (2008), Lennon suggests that a previous experience had made him proof against Maciel's advances: in a general confession to Maciel before taking his first religious vows, Lennon mentioned having been "accosted" by an Irish Christian Brother at his Dublin high school before joining the Legion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, despite the heavy police presence, a woman in her early 20s was "accosted" around 1: 30 p.m. as she walked along a path near the Tim Hortons on the town's east side. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was then that Mr. Tyner " accosted " the poor TSA agent by saying the immortal words, " If you touch my junk, I ' m gonna have you arrested. ❋ Eric Felten (2010)

"accosted" him, as his cousin, who was one of the Boston Thayers, put it to me. ❋ Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1918)

Several other foreign journalists said they were also accosted by authorities. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In another case, a group of thugs accosted a leading Greek journalist while he ate in a restaurant. ❋ Takis Michas (2011)

Out for their own profit, bandits accosted individual American soldiers as well as foreign merchants along the National Road and in northern Mexico, where Zachary Taylor initiated punishing counterstrikes. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

Just when I thought things were going to pick up for Bella (the incessantly brooding teen protagonist) when she was about to be accosted by some young men, Meyer pulls the rug out from under me and sends the "dazzling" and "perfect" vampire, Edward, swooping in to save the day in a most anticlimactic fashion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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)