irritating
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.
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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But if I let that idea have any room and gave it any consideration, it would follow up with some bigger, harder questions that were just plain irritating.
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Results have an irritating way of cutting across reasoned opinion - not that Carrick shows any sign of getting swept along.
From BBC
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