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Recent Examples of annoyingly
The last two episodes give the first real indications that the show is capable of being smartly tricky with its structure and timeline, rather than just annoyingly evasive.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
Tyler’s love for hip-hop as an art form in the purest sense of the word is almost annoyingly well-documented.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile Bruce’s mom (Gaby Hoffmann), whom the kid is fiercely protective of, is left annoyingly unexplored.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The cable is a little over 3 feet long, a good length for connecting with a laptop or USB dock, but annoyingly short for a desktop tower placed farther from your work area.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
There is, of course, a difference here, that being the fact that Netflix has annoyingly split season 2 of Wednesday into two parts, with the second airing on September 3, a month after the first.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
Tyler’s love for hip-hop as an art form in the purest sense of the word is almost annoyingly well-documented.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile Bruce’s mom (Gaby Hoffmann), whom the kid is fiercely protective of, is left annoyingly unexplored.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The cable is a little over 3 feet long, a good length for connecting with a laptop or USB dock, but annoyingly short for a desktop tower placed farther from your work area.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
There is, of course, a difference here, that being the fact that Netflix has annoyingly split season 2 of Wednesday into two parts, with the second airing on September 3, a month after the first.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annoyingly
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No Diego Luna for Best Actor, no Stellan Skarsgård for Best Supporting Actor, no Elizabeth Dulau for Best Supporting Actress, and, most irritatingly of all, no Genevieve O’Reilly for Best Actress.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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Sennott and her costars speak with an irritatingly fake affect, are shallower than a puddle in the desert and prize selfishness, indolence and artifice.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Free speech has become a major liability in a disgustingly litigious society.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The pipeline of new antibiotics remains distressingly thin, and most drugs currently in development are structurally similar to existing antibiotics, potentially limiting their effectiveness.—
André O. Hudson,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2026
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That can be forgiven thanks to the film’s evocative imagery and the emotional resonance of its central themes, distressingly familiar to anyone who has ever lost themselves in a relationship.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
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Alongside the investigation into Anders’s kidnapping and death, Elsbeth is managing another aspect of her social life and her complicated feelings about a character who’s gone but vexingly unforgettable.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
14 Nov. 2025
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But his spasms, vexingly, grew more frequent and severe.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Sometimes the dance floor is alarmingly sticky.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2026
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The Americans even modified a Boeing 747 to carry a huge experimental and alarmingly dangerous chemical laser designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles that was more of a menace to the crew than the missiles.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Jan. 2026
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Kirk grasped how the internet has changed America, but his death has demonstrated—and, disturbingly, may have resulted from—the fundamentally anarchic nature of those changes.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
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But mostly, and kind of disturbingly, people enjoyed ridiculing it.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Annoyingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annoyingly. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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