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Recent Examples of irritatingly
Sennott and her costars speak with an irritatingly fake affect, are shallower than a puddle in the desert and prize selfishness, indolence and artifice.
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
People had called that earlier model irritatingly sycophantic, and the Raines would later suggest in their lawsuit that this quality had contributed to their son’s attachment to it.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
People had called that earlier model irritatingly sycophantic, and the Raines would later suggest in their lawsuit that this quality had contributed to their son’s attachment to it.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritatingly
Adverb
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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
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Meanwhile Bruce’s mom (Gaby Hoffmann), whom the kid is fiercely protective of, is left annoyingly unexplored.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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The running game is a mess, Carson Wentz is often running for his life, and the defense proved distressingly vulnerable to big plays in last weekend’s 28-22 loss to Philadelphia.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
23 Oct. 2025
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And yet, distressingly, this early stage is too often where the lists of possible awards contenders start to get narrowed down.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 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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But his spasms, vexingly, grew more frequent and severe.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Denver Public Schools has not returned to pre-pandemic levels of achievement and, alarmingly, has no clear plan to get there.—
Elaine Gantz Berman,
Denver Post,
25 Oct. 2025
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Delinquencies, defaults, and repossessions have shot up in recent years and look alarmingly similar to trends that were apparent before the Great Recession.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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Visits from polar bears were disturbingly common.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The same studio that produced the Godzilla franchise, Toho, masterminds one of the most horrifying and disturbingly humorous psychedelic films to date.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Irritatingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritatingly. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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