: causing vexation or irritation : causing annoyance : irritating
an annoying habit
annoying questions
Examples of annoying in a Sentence
my partner has the annoying habit of eating all the pickles and leaving a jar full of pickle juice in the refrigerator
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Even sage advice given in an annoying manner will eventually be ignored, and the lord at last was driven out of his own house.
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Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Los Angeles, where the produce is so fresh and enticing as to induce tears and the reservation culture is not nearly as annoying as New York, is a sprawling city with a sprawling food scene.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
One is called Culex pipiens form pipiens, which only bites birds and lives in open air environments, and the other is called Culex pipiens form molestus — from the Latin word for annoying — which bites humans and thrives belowground.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Or is Abby just kind of annoying?
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Los Angeles, where the produce is so fresh and enticing as to induce tears and the reservation culture is not nearly as annoying as New York, is a sprawling city with a sprawling food scene.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
One is called Culex pipiens form pipiens, which only bites birds and lives in open air environments, and the other is called Culex pipiens form molestus — from the Latin word for annoying — which bites humans and thrives belowground.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Or is Abby just kind of annoying?
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for annoying
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“Annoying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annoying. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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