DUNNED Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

dunned

verb

past tense of dun

as in annoyed

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One guy in cargo shorts and a battered Ramones T-shirt kept casting dirty looks at the sky, clearly annoyed at the thumping of the TV news helicopters — there were at least three overhead at all times — drowning out his commentary.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
What annoyed me the most, though, was the way the meditation teachers talked, which tended toward New Age–isms in passive voice.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of annoyed

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Still, the news has worried some, like the founder of conservative French art publication La Tribune de l’Art, Didier Rykner.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
But Olson worried that a series of injuries during her freshman and sophomore years would affect her recruiting.

— Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

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Some of the details have irked school officials because the act caps conference membership at 19 teams and requires schools moving between conferences to spend five years as an independent.

— Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
But Trinity's focus on its bottom line also irked many Republicans, including Mantello, who was the City Council president at the time.

— Noam Levey, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026

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As new waves of feminists confronted different issues, some became exasperated by Steinem’s seemingly perennial role as the face of the women’s movement.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
We have been puzzled, even exasperated at times, by the Heat’s level of patience with its roster over the past two seasons, particularly last year.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026

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Many economists believe that final round of stimulus relief overheated the economy and fed inflation, which has vexed the American public for the past five years.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
For decades scientists and researchers have been vexed by a sound emanating from cats.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of vexed

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Township officials accused me of a power grab and riled up the local township boards, which came out en masse.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
And while enough baseball (and IL time) has happened since then to dim Mayer’s star considerably, there’s enough promise left in him to get Law riled up about the trade.

— Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

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In the ad, Piven pulls up to a Miami mansion party in a sports car and is hassled by a bouncer.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
Each presents a group portrait of a handful of disaffected British suburbanites—husbands who resent their deadening jobs, toddlers who whine and interrupt, and, above all, hassled wives subsumed by a crush of household obligations.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of hassled

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