irritate
Example Sentences
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So instead of being better than their neighbors to the north, the Americans leaned into being meaner, heavier and generally more irritating.
We're all talking about it, it's generating masses of viral content, and all the fans we spoke to said they'd still be watching the film - no matter how irritated they were by its press campaign.
From BBC
He grows irritated when I ask who he has in mind.
The aspiring floppy-haired filmmaker could be sensitive but manipulative, loveable yet irritating.
From BBC
The others were trying to make it easy for him to keep up, but he could tell that the slow pace was irritating at least Bronden and Val.
From Literature
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