Causing irritation or annoyance.
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Examples for "annoying "
Examples for "annoying "
1 Workers aren't taking action because they want to be annoying , she said.
2 This annoying little brat addressed the UN on the so-called climate crisis.
3 This didn't seem like one of her annoying , yet ultimately innocent causes.
4 They wear annoying scarfs and talk about podcasts from five years ago.
5 It's probably really annoying to hear that first thing in the morning.
1 Though the question was meant to be teasing , Lauren considered it seriously.
2 Ultimately, teasing out the technical problems may be only half the battle.
3 At this point, I should caution against taking my Neville - teasing entirely seriously.
4 The words were teasing , but there were serious undertones to his voice.
5 A handsome man? His tone was teasing , but his question was serious.
1 For five minutes they discussed Blomkvist's shortcomings in the most irritating terms.
2 Sabina smiled, pleased that he found their situation amusing rather than irritating .
3 The man in question would have no idea how irritating it was.
4 The two-second delay on the line, that irritating echo, didn't help matters.
5 Some people find them drying and irritating because they often contain alcohol.
1 Halfway across the cabin's great room, he heard that pesky noise again.
2 Sure, the chief had suffered a pesky episode a few years back.
3 Well, for example, there are those pesky laws of physics and biology.
4 However those other pesky sprinters aren't at all intimidated by his presence.
5 That pesky Shepherd Dog's sorta responsible for any trouble you might've had.
1 One of them said the action was unjustified, vexatious , premature and excessive.
2 The delay was vexatious ; but Saturday the twenty-second would do as well.
3 The whole position is in the highest degree artificial, misleading, and vexatious .
4 Perhaps the most vexatious god was he who ruled the Floating Islands.
5 This debate was eventually parked by Justice Greves, as ingermane and vexatious .
1 Lucy took no note of this vexing phenomenon and continued to speak:
2 The truly vexing problems are turning out to be the medical ones.
3 The builders have moved on to the vexing problem of my freezer.
4 Great Britain's successes in the Games of the 29th Olympiad were vexing .
5 But of the two the form of Hameed remains the more vexing .
1 You can even bring your friend-youknow, the one Roy was pestering .
2 I guessed that Spelikon must have been pestering him with questions too.
3 Why did you tell your neighbor that a reporter was pestering you?
4 And I kept on pestering the man. And pester Pelé Toye did.
5 But that was very far from setting a term to his pestering .
1 What a bothersome world this is; there is no finality about anything.
2 But it was bothersome to know that they were coming toward him.
3 But the police were so bothersome in this part of the world.
4 He frowned irritably, as though I'd asked him something bothersome and insignificant.
5 Without their marshy breeding ground, those bothersome biting insects had largely disappeared.
1 You bury your seamen upon the pestiferous shores; and, shocking to humanity!
2 The air is pestiferous ; warm and diseased, it fans us as we approach.
3 Yet the atmosphere of pestiferous fragrance had attracted, rather than repelled.
4 There was really only one drawback - the pestiferous draft-boards that never stopped snooping round.
5 There was only this pestiferous overlaying of shame and cowardice to be removed.
1 You know this plaguy memory of mine-whata forgetful fellow I am.
2 There is here no tiresome rivalry of wits, no plaguy intellectual effort.
3 There's some pretty bad travelling and a plaguy bit of swamp ahead.
4 What, Mary, always singing doleful ditties, and moping over these plaguy books.
5 It'll cost you plaguy sight more'n that, and blood, too, like enough.
1 TRYGAEUS My legs pain me; it is such a plaguey long journey.
2 Now be keerful and not run afoul of the plaguey lye leech.
3 He was only too plaguey sure of himself to feel any anxiety.
4 Kiss me, lad, if you can find room between these plaguey bandages.
5 La!-forsure he writes not as he did, but is plaguey busy.
1 Drummer had started crying, a nettlesome sound, and he wouldn't be pacified.
2 The most nettlesome issues for industry are security and accounting.
3 The timing involved in selling it, though, can be nettlesome .
4 A former senior executive at one of the two companies also found the regulations nettlesome .
5 This leads us to the nettlesome subject of authenticity.
1 Donaldson's betrayal was seen as particularly galling , given his impeccable republican credentials.
2 The answer is galling to EU diplomats and foreign ministers, but telling.
3 But the blow at the moment of the stroke is very galling .
4 The last words were galling , in the extreme, to Raoul de Fontaine.
5 The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction.
6 Their hope was to push the galling foes away from the fence.
7 The truth of it bit into him, galling him-hewas no warrior.
8 Though the idea was galling , she had to consult with Sean Maguire.
9 We'll learn from them. Horst was full of galling truisms, thought Cabal.
10 He merely sat in the corner and chuckled in a galling manner.
11 But it was galling to discover that he could not do otherwise.
12 One is not bound down by a galling yoke of ecclesiastical tyranny.
13 One particularly galling circumstance at last caused their discontent to break out.
14 This criticism has always been a galling one, and not without reason.
15 An industrious young man can always free himself from a galling yoke.
16 And to me it's particularly galling , because I never exploded at all.
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