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annoy
verb as in irritate, upset
Strongest matches
agitate, bore, bother, displease, disturb, exasperate, fire up, gall, irk, peeve, perturb, rile, trouble, turn off, vex, worry
Strong matches
abrade, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, break, bug, chafe, distress, get, gnaw, harass, harry, madden, miff, nag, needle, nettle, nudge, pester, plague, provoke, ride, ruffle, tease
Weak matches
T-off, ask for it, be at, be on the back of, burn up, egg on, heat up, henpeck, hit where one lives, make waves, push button, tick off, work on
Example Sentences
Six men's World Cups have come and gone without Scotland and, frankly, it's beginning to get annoying.
"It was stressful as it relates to the unknowing" of what was going to happen, Hardwick said of the shutdown, adding that people were "annoyed and frustrated" by the impasse.
He also frequently bewails the exchange of his “real life” as a travel writer for his shadow-self as a spy, a predicament which he finds “fraught, annoying, perplexing, duplicitous.”
In an interview, James Bullock, the dean of Dornsife College, said he understood that such cuts “are annoying.”
A product of an anarchic group called the Cacophony Society, SantaCon has come to be seen by many as an annoying pub crawl.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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