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irritating

adjective as in vexatious

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Woo backflips into the water with irritating grace, still holding the dashiki as he plunges downward.

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“I think this milkshake is irritating my throat,” he said.

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The actor recalls people in Hollywood finding his desire to do highly varied roles “irritating” when he was younger.

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Failing to pass the package risks irritating Musk, which would introduce unnecessary uncertainty into the stock.

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Sly, wry, adorable and deplorable, Guillaume Marbeck is priceless as the endlessly irritating and yet frustratingly charismatic Godard in one of the year’s brightest pictures, a rare standout in a sea of multiplex mediocrity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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