peskily

--and there's that pesky, peskily Aristotelian equiprimordiality, ha ha ha.

King's vast oeuvre (over 40 books to date) includes all the garden-variety spooks - ghosts, vampires, peskily anthropophagous zombies - as well as a few more unconventional manifestations of the Other Side that he clearly dreamed up by himself.

Apparently more comfortable with sympathetic peers from his former business life than with peskily argumentative types from government and journalism, Mr. Bloomberg was said to be engaging and open, in contrast with the more private figure New Yorkers see back home.