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irritated

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verb

past tense of irritate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of irritated
Adjective
Applying an ice pack or cold compress to especially irritated areas can bring quick, though temporary, relief. Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 25 Aug. 2025 My skin is irritated from so much shaving. Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
In fact, the aliens take a back seat to the human interactions, which irritated some viewers eager to see actual aliens in a show about an extraterrestrial invasion. Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for irritated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritated
Adjective
  • His annoyed expression when your protagonist asks to use the phone will have some underlying reason behind it.
    JD Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Until one day she was interrupted by an annoyed Philip Poole, the head coach of the Ascent.
    Emma Moon, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And she couldn’t be bothered to start things up again.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • No one has ever bothered me for doing this.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But over time, even the most beautiful planks can start to look dull, dry, or scratched, especially in high-traffic areas.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Jenna Ortega's Wednesday has only scratched the surface of her family's dark history.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Joining them and co-creators Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez in the writers’ room for Season 2 is Sarah Polley, following her guest stint playing herself as an exasperated director in Season 1.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Reprising his role as the exasperated accountant, Oscar (played by actor Oscar Nunez) wants no part in the crew’s latest project.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • His not winning it was considered a failure, and that bugged him.
    Brody Miller, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The characters muse about the extreme likelihood that their apartments have been bugged.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Candle wax should be carefully scraped away with the edge of a plastic putty knife, not metal.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The beauty of most D2C customer lists is that they weren’t scraped or cobbled together.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • One unbearable sequence has Chiang coming back angry in the middle of the day and suddenly raping Chuan in their bedroom.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In late July, centrist independent US Senator Angus King released a startlingly angry statement.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His deportation to El Salvador violated a 2019 court order that protected him from being deported to his home country because of concerns that he’d be persecuted by violent gangs.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Criminals are to be persecuted.
    Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025

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“Irritated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritated. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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