annoyance

Orange County residents spend more time in traffic delays than residents in Los Angeles, according to one regional study, and Orange Countians consistently name traffic as their chief annoyance.

Like so much of her career, Deen’s plea for forgiveness was outsized and totally singular, so much so that it became fodder to convey the brief intensity of an otherwise banal annoyance.

There was the mildest air of annoyance with the forecaster whose analyses are so critical to the Budget process.

There are also regulations in England, Wales and Scotland allowing drivers and police officers to remove a passenger from a bus or coach for making a noise that causes "annoyance" to other passengers.

But in Australia they've long been treated as a bit of a joke - at worst, an annoyance.