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: causing vexation or irritation : causing annoyance : irritating
an annoying habit
annoying questions
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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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But more recently there have been other issues, such as one that is highly annoying: vanishing data in the Apple Notes app.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
But there is one item on her bucket list that has been annoying elusive.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
How annoying of a problem is this for one of the darlings of artificial intelligence?
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2024
Photo: Jeenah Moon/The Washington Post via Getty Images Unlike the series of plagues Yahweh unleashed on the Egyptians in the Book of Exodus, our world has become infested with something far more annoying: celebrity look-alike contests.
—Michael Savio, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Annoying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annoying. Accessed 7 Dec. 2024.
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