irritant

That said, Braff has always seemed like a minor irritant, and I never gave any real thought to why he bugged me.

The Republicans are a constant irritant, willing to sacrifice their own standing as long as they can drag him down with them.

An even smaller minority goes and returns so frequently that these lines can be an irritant.

“We averted what was building up to be a major irritant,” says Robert Killebrew, a retired Army colonel.

As compared to that, Israel/Palestine is old hat, and at most a peripheral irritant.

From a clinical study of Rhus poisoning, Pfaff came to the conclusion that the poison must be a non-volatile skin irritant.

She was finding a species of salve for her own disappointment in this irritant applied to another.

The latter, like the former, is used as an external irritant.

The oxalic acid in sorrel is an irritant poison, causing retching and violent pains.

When the children were growing up and in the crucial stage of adolescence, the father was like some ugly irritant to their souls.