annoying
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abrasive, aggravating, bothersome, carking, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey (also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing
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There is nothing more annoying than a giant semen stain in the center of your mattress, or period blood splattered over your sheets like a crime scene. — Gigi Engle, SELF, "7 Tips for Cleaning Up After Sex Gets Messy," 12 Dec. 2018 The best and likely safest place for a scooter is a bike lane since there are no pedestrians and because the lanes can accommodate faster traffic (as a daily bike commuter, scooters aren’t any more annoying than slower cyclists). — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Electric scooters’ sudden invasion of American cities, explained," 7 Sep. 2018 What could be more annoying than Mercury retrograde? — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, "What August's Pisces Horoscope Means for You," 30 July 2018 Why do preschool teachers make so little money, for example, while the people who design annoying banner ads do pretty well for themselves? — Alana Semuels, New York Times, "Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs?," 26 June 2018 Likewise in February, Google launched an ad blocker in Chrome that filtered out some of the more annoying kinds of online ads. — Robert Levine, BostonGlobe.com, "Google is hugely powerful. Is antitrust law up to the job?," 13 June 2018 An update Google rolled out for its popular Chrome browser this weekend helps prevent those annoying auto-playing video ads on many websites from disturbing your day with unwanted sound as well. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "In blocking autoplay videos, Chrome is breaking many Web-based games," 8 May 2018 Even food and beverage credits can be annoying if guests don’t want to eat at the hotel. — Scott Mccartney, WSJ, "The Hotel Fees That Barely Even Make Sense," 9 Jan. 2019 The schedule may seem annoying, but there’s a good reason for the shift: broadcaster NBC wants to avoid conflicts with Sunday Night Football, an event that has historically limited viewership numbers for the Emmys. — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, "Reminder: don’t schedule your Emmys party for Sunday," 14 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'annoying.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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