In New Hampshire, harassment is typically charged as a misdemeanor. Most often a charge of Harassment involves some type of prohibited communication, typically telephone calls, that are made with the purpose to annoy, threaten or alarm another. It constitutes harassment to make repeated communications at inconvenient hours or to use inappropriate language with the purpose to annoy or alarm another. Harassment also encompasses “insults” “taunts” or “challenges” in a manner likely to “provoke a violent or disorderly response”.