: 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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Noise limits In the 2010s, a common concern about wind turbines was that the swishing noise was annoying or even dangerous to residents’ health.
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What’s annoying is that this is a prison of Salley’s own devising.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
Adhesive Residue No one likes to battle the annoying sticky residue left behind from price tags or brand labels, but those are no match for your steam cleaner.
—Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 19 Feb. 2026
What’s annoying is that this is a prison of Salley’s own devising.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
The genre, Solomon notes, often employs highly-implausible plot devices to avoid dealing with the annoying aspects of living in space.
—Big Think, 19 Feb. 2026
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“Annoying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annoying. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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