: 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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An annoying, biker beast blasted out of my bowels onto the page and became the not-so-invisible embodiment of my disease.
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David Soren, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
In any case, this costume would probably go over best with a crowd of theater kids and/or people who are annoying about movies, also known as the exact Venn Diagram that is the staff of Them dot us.
—James Factora, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
The annoying or molesting charges were related to lewd or inappropriate comments Moseby allegedly made to students.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
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David Soren, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
In any case, this costume would probably go over best with a crowd of theater kids and/or people who are annoying about movies, also known as the exact Venn Diagram that is the staff of Them dot us.
—James Factora, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
The annoying or molesting charges were related to lewd or inappropriate comments Moseby allegedly made to students.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Annoying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annoying. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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