How To Use Irritating In A Sentence

The narrative was involving, yet contained a couple of irritating lacunae. Times, Sunday Times
Secondly, irritating, defamatory and derogatory comments left at this site by visitors will be deleted.
The songs are irritatingly infectious with enough angst to keep the moodiest teenagers frowning.
While I am sharply critical of American unilateralism and realpolitik masquerading as the defence of liberty, at times I find our own moralizing irritating.
The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process. 2009 February 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS

But there is another reason why a war between the two countries is so much to be deprecated, which is, that is must ever be a cruel and an irritating war. Diary in America, Series One
He really is an irritating little tick, isn't he?
I do my share of driving and I had no idea all that cutting people off and speeding and changing lanes without signaling and blowing through stop signs was "choreographed"--no wonder I find driving to say nothing of cycling in New York City so irritating. People Are People: Dealing With It
The irritating lack of clarity about who holds what amount of debt has led to some ridiculous underpricing of risk. Times, Sunday Times
Only, there are too many series, and if one wants to try a new author, often he has to buy an entire trilogy, andthat is irritating: any interesting new book you spot is the second or third book of the series this and that. Book Series
I could think over what I felt towards him, to try and find a way to quench those irritating feelings that nagged consistently at my mind.
Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim.
And each morning my peaceful sleep was interrupted by the most irritating and annoying ringing sound imaginable.
The boarding and takeoff found me only slightly out of sorts; an irritating whining noise near the gate was troubling me.
Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles.
I was startled when Cassie described almost smashing a vase over Brian's head because he was irritating her, but she successfully checked her violent reaction.
The presence of these foreign substances in the eye, in connection with the salt spray and irritating atmosphere, greatly aggravated the ophthalmia, and resolved it into a chronic affection, which ultimately resulted in entropium. The Dog
You would have thought he told him he got a blowie from his equally irritating wife the way he reacted. RVABlogs
ACOUSTICS – D. Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand of Chicago’s Northwestern University for a 1986 experiment aimed at discovering why the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard is so irritating. Announcing the Year’s Winners of the IgNobel Prize | Impact Lab
“For tear-free chopping, mincing, dicing, slicing — fear no onion,” reads the packaging for RSVP Onion Goggles (shown), whose antifog lenses and foam seal are designed to protect your eyes from irritating onion vapors. Claim Check: Onion Goggles
All parts of the poison ivy plant produce the oily irritating agent, urushiol.
Even if we're headed in that direction and the progress is irritatingly sluggish, one shouldn't be grouching about it.
She has always seemed like a pretty clean-living girl - irritatingly so, really.
There are no waymarks for a while, which is irritating on a permissive path.
I do not see what they can do better, and unless some pickthank intervene to insinuate certain irritating suspicions, I suppose Lord M. will make no objection. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
Most irritating were the German rocket launchers, which miraculously decimate infantry and armour alike with impunity.
Like an elephant beset by bees, or the straw that broke the camel's back, this week's swarm of small irritating things could madden even tolerant Taurans.
Speaking as someone that has given out a sum total of 3 fixed pens for speeding in 20-years – i find that bullshot somewhat irritating. on April 2, 2010 at 12: 18 pm Frenchy Policing Pledge Is A Lie SHOCK « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The Clintons had given him his start in national politics when he was just a pisher Yiddish for “an irritating squirt”. THE PROMISE
What's even more irritating is the angle the reporter used, which is the presumably counter-intuitive notion that heart attacks kill more hunters than stray bullets. Hunters with Hangovers?
It was most irritating and Grace was already heartily sick of their visitors, who had as yet not indicated just how long they intended to stay.
Because carbon monoxide is colorless, tasteless, odorless and nonirritating, it can overcome the exposed person without warning.
Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
In case the balky internet connection is insufficiently irritating, the hotel is also providing me USA Today on a complimentary basis.
Look for a formula containing gentle, nonirritating herbs like alder buckthorn, okra, triphala and aloe, and the mineral magnesium hydroxide that will soothe the bowel, stimulate peristalsis, and help eliminate mucus from the bowel. The Fiber35 Diet
Still, as a connoisseur, I think irritating an entire nation's Buddhist monks has to be the kickflip McTwist of shocking the bourgeoisie. Archive 2009-01-01
Jeffrey is pretty hapless, and a very funny spoof of an irritating circuit queen.
Choosing the right internet connection provider can mean the difference between speedy and consistent connections and irritating disconnections.
It is the vision of an Englishman, a sportsman and a visitor yet not that of a superficial tourist, and, irritating as it might be to the Scottish nationalist in the age of devolution, it still exerts a powerful appeal.
The sound of bones cracking and men gagging becomes irritatingly repetitive. Times, Sunday Times
But they have, all of them, one particularly irritating little habit.
Next time you are faced with one of those really irritating and chronic ‘pains-in-the-ass’ – just think; “Prickle, prickle, prickle …” on July 29, 2009 at 12: 24 am Burbage Police Use Naughty Word *SHOCK* « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Any attempt by the UUP to move "leftwards" (as an aside I find the designation of hard line unionism as right wing and its opposite left wing irritating and inaccurate but it is a useful shorthand) resulted in segments of unionism moving towards the DUP or else the UUP splitting and moving back rightwards. Slugger O'Toole
They have a thick, leathery peel dotted with areolas (colored rings, generally at the base of spines in cacti) loaded with irritating glochids. Nopales, tunas and pitayas
Furthermore, they assert, aged garlic is preferable because with aging, garlic's harsh, irritating and odiferous qualities can be tamed.
Yes, PBS can be irritatingly self-righteous, and reflects a left-of-center bias in both its tone of voice and its story selection. Bill Shireman: A Conservative Case for Public Broadcasting
he keeps humming irritatingly
Pity, however, carried the day, and had it not been for the irritating coldness of "that little hard-hearted thing," as she called Jacqueline, she would have entirely forgiven her. The French Immortals Series — Complete
This he did to good effect, even if his tendency to go to ground too easily was irritating.
A fair portion of contemporary poetry over-relies on self-reflexive irony, tonal detachment, and an often irritating allusive erudition.
There is a certain irritating sort of journalist - perhaps unfairly, Zoe Williams of the Guardian is the first name that springs to mind - who affects an adolescent offhandedness in his of her writing. Simon Titley: Against jargon
Yes it sounds so good but if it miauls loudly and continuously, then the same sound goes irritating.
Irritatingly, somewhere across the constant six-lane thrum of traffic, church bells were ringing. TICKLED PINK
Kei groaned as for the third time that morning his hand sleepily fumbled in an attempt to silence the irritating buzz of the battery alarm clock.
Anything that shifts 'lifehacker' closer to the right side of the irritating-informative spectrum is cool with me. Google Reader Full Feed Expands Truncated Feeds With A Keystroke | Lifehacker Australia
He has this irritating mannerism of constantly scratching his nose.
Perhaps most irritating of all was the nagging seat-belt warning that persisted for an annoying extra few beeps even after you had buckled up.
Under the radiance from the lighted lanai, ere entering the irritating movement of life again to which he belonged, he paused to stare, scarcely seeing, at a flaunt of display of scarlet double-hibiscus blooms. THE KANAKA SURF
Eschenbach repeatedly slips into small but irritating mannerisms, such as a ritard and brief pause before this or that emphatic chord -- a disruption of flow that Mahler, a brilliant conductor, was perfectly capable of writing into the score had he wanted it. As Mahler's death centenary nears, an outpouring of recordings pays tribute
The garish colors, the bawling kids, the irritating and distracting music and the inedible snacks make it no place for conversation or cogitation. Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks
Also, truth to tell, I have always been a bit of a claustrophobe, and the edginess that comes from suppressing an irritating and irrational fear, combined with my current far-from-irrational caution about venturing into a London bristling, for all I knew, with knife-wielding youths all too willing to pick up where their colleague had left off, made me regret that the chief inspector had not decided to keep me locked up overnight. A Monstrous Regiment of Women
She found his relentless sexual innuendoes irritating.
This line about happiness being paramount is particularly irritating from supposedly religious people. The Social Science of Raising Happy Kids - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
But because adult skin can be particularly susceptible to the irritating effects of their active ingredients (like benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid), many look for acne systems with added fundamental built-in skincare components, such as bioactive botanicals and nutrients. Purpleocity.net
After six seasons, Lost ended as it began, shrouded in an aura of pronounced mysterioso, its insistence on being elusive and allusive with regard to its central mythology either endlessly beguiling or endlessly irritating. William Bradley: Time Slips Away for 24 and Lost in Very Different Finales
When I won young journalist of the year in 1988 it seemed an irritating distraction to go to London for the ceremony.
I found the conclusion of the film rather irritating.
Don't give them a sales pitch because there is nothing more irritating.
Next time you hear the ominous music, you see the calculatedly irritating grainy video, you are embraced by the seductive, syrupy voice (a voice actor I met called this the "pukey" voice), try to picture the person at that microphone. Davis Sweet: One Voter's Meat is the Same Voter's Poison
If you find sunscreens irritating, you're probably reacting to a perfume or a preservative like methylparaben or propylparaben.
The primary purpose of a laboratory hood is to keep toxic or irritating vapors and fumes out of the general laboratory working area.
Then there are the irritating editorial mistakes such as misnumbering of moves and move typos.
She does have a mustache and a monobrow, but the main thing is how irritatingly she begs for love.
My brother recently posted an irritating video of people playing some kind of weird theramin that uses a Russian matroyshka doll ... said it seemed like my kind of thing. Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
His hero worship of Jarvis, normally irritating, suddenly became the foundation relationship that others, more ephemeral, could rely upon. LET NOT THE DEEP
You need someone to help you cut through all the irritating legal jargon.
This is irritating, and it'd be great if the software could override that somehow.
Meanwhile, mom's heart may not be beating, but she's still with them, naggingly offering irritating guilt trips from beyond the grave.
And yes, you can always chose to ignore or unfollow the person, if you find him / her irritating.
And in terms of the poem on the page, I found the actual layout, the presence of the poem on the page, to be both compelling and slightly irritating--a retrofitting of a kind of poetry that exists elsewhere in rangier forms. Avant Lyric, a few observations toward an essay, part one
I attribute the fact that my irritating nasality is somewhat tempered to the fact that I went to summer camp at a young age, which is where I heard the letter "R" pronounced for the first time. Fixed-Gear Theme Vacations: Getting There is Half the Fun, Filming It is the Other Half
The gravely, growling voice is shot to bits, the performances are hokey, the ad-libs too frequent, and the constant crowd noises irritating.
If you must shave, use plenty of shaving cream and a clean razor - dull blades will pull the skin along with the hair, irritating it further.
That'll be five pounds, dear", he said in an irritatingly familiar way.
This made him an irritating companion at times, but his natural charm, his wit and his enthusiasm for the adventure in hand were very endearing.
That irritating word 'bodywear' has been appended to the collection because it does stretch a little beyond the underwear zone; those waffled, knee-patched cotton long johns are particularly nice. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
He was not the only player to do that, of course, nor even the only player in the Italy team, obviously, but he was by far the most irritating offender, primarily because even after the referee made his decisions, the gawkish saltimbanco harangued his supposed aggressor with all the righteous indignation of a nun in a knocking shop. The Guardian World News
The irritating midges plague outdoor workers at the home of Britain's nuclear deterrent on Gareloch all year round.
His irritating pseudo-epilepsy stands out as one of several examples where the editing misdirects our attention to issues ancillary to the show.
The puppy is irritatingly fond of gnawing at the bottom of my moleskins.
Look, if I want to overemote, I'll do it myself, watching this irritatingly self-aggrandizing hooey. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says reducing import tariffs is one way Ottawa could respond to what he has described as the irritatingly high cost of consumer goods when compared with prices south of the border. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Irritatingly, the author offers no notes and only in his acknowledgements does he point out which survivors he interviewed and what books he drew his narrative from.
With TV schedules chock-a-block full of irritating property makeover shows, you can't deny we're all obsessed with interiors.
So there is no excuse for irritating scrolling of text up and down, especially when it's for quite small distances.
The story of the Prudential has stopped being one of irritating slow performance and become something much more important.
As a Minnesotan, her kind of nasally twang reminds me of a far northern MN accent -- which I also find very irritating. Biden: Palin Must Condemn Ugly Slurs From Supporters
They think it's time someone taught a lesson to George, a genuinely irritating lug who, like the rest of the characters, has more going on inside than is immediately apparent.
One of the things I've found irritating about Japanese kokugo-jiten is the absence of the kind of etymological information we take for granted in most of our English dictionaries. Languagehat.com: JAPANESE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY.
These map sites work well in general, but tend to have irritating flaws - like neglecting to indicate which way to turn to get onto an on-ramp.
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Coarse flannel is more irritating than any other material in ordinary use, and should therefore never be used when a sufficient amount of bodily heat can be maintained without it; as its use weakens, in the end, the perspiratory, and calorific, and depurating powers of the skin -- for the skin has all these powers -- and even, in some cases, brings on eruptive and other diseases. The Young Woman's Guide
He has the irritating habit of smoking during meals.
This could prove to be intensely irritating and amusing in equal measure, and probably all too easy to take potshots at.
She had to do without the family she had relied on for her entire life: an overbearing, vicious mother, irritating brothers, meddlesome cousins, and so on.
As irritating as romanticising the past might be to outsiders, those bound up in it must start to consider its effects.
He is intensely irritating, with a cockiness untempered by charisma and exacerbated by a grating accent he brought from England when his family emigrated.
He had an irritating habit of singing tunelessly about the house.
It's often said that Matthew Le Tissier didn't make the most of his sublime talent, though only by the clumpish and irritating. The Guardian World News
You might also feel there is too much random squatting down, which can look irritatingly actorish if overdone. Times, Sunday Times
The Spaniards, in general, dislike a mixture of vanilla with the cacao, as irritating the nervous system; the fruit, therefore, of that orchideous plant is entirely neglected in the province of Caracas, though abundant crops of it might be gathered on the moist and feverish coast between Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
One only mildly irritating curiosity worth mentioning here is a little bit of what sounds like pre-echo.
Those of you of a certain age may recall the irritatingly catchy song by Aqua called Barbie Girl which had as its lyrics the following: Blaney's Blarney
Captain Rosser several times countermanded orders given by his chief officer -- an experienced seaman -- and bullied and "jawed" his crew in the most pompous and irritating manner, and finally when we succeeded in getting the vessel off the reef with the loss of her false keel and rudder, and were towing her into smooth water inside the reef, he came for'ard, and abruptly desired our chief mate to cease towing, as he meant to anchor. "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
Readers may find the pretension and arrogance of her style irritating.
The only thing that has developed over the months is an irritating squeak from the rear interior; we think it may be from the tonneau but we have failed to pin it down so far.
Even if we're headed in that direction and the progress is irritatingly sluggish, one shouldn't be grouching about it.
Aloe Vera soap is very good for the face and is biodegradable, pH controlled and non-irritating.
an irritating delay
The tone too, is irritating: Brooding, weepy and utterly inward-looking, as though no world exists beyond one's own emotional landscape.
During your bath or shower, let your feet enjoy warm water for a few minutes, then cleanse with a gentle, non-irritating cleanser and a foot brush or washcloth, working between the toes and scrubbing the heels to slough off dead skin.
I soon found myself spending more money on whole foods and non-irritating beauty products than on manicures and shoes.
CAUTION: Do not use for kidney infections or if you have any kidney problems, since buchu can be irritating to the kidneys. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
Despite her irritating affectations, she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts.
Not being able to smoke a nice cigar with my friends at a local pub is rather irritating.
Lemon is quite capable of irritating the most bovine of people or animals.
harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway
Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
Julia's steadfast refusal to accept the fact that she's in danger is irritating rather than sympathetic and a couple of the supporting characters are a little too stock to work.
Planes will no longer be a haven from irritating ringtones with the arrival of cheaper ways to allow mobile phones to be used on aircraft.
Chewing the gum is certainly less harmful than smoking cigarettes, but nicotine can be irritating to the digestive tract, causing hiccups, heartburn and nausea.
It's possible something has been lost in the translation; the story feels bitty and cluttered by digressions, while the whimsical air is irritating rather than amusing.
What's getting really irritating is the oppositions strategy of using fear as fact. Liberal group attacks GOP and insurance industry
Yet my experiences in the salons and at the stand-up recitals of the new literary scene suggest that, despite the occasional piece of irritating modishness, the hyperbole with which some events are trumpeted and the odd ropy performance, there is an energy and invention on offer that the established scene and its practitioners might do well to allow to rub off on them. The new wave of literary events
Wolf Larsen was quite considerate, the sailors helped me, and I was no longer in irritating contact with Thomas Mugridge. Chapter 16
The endless instrument tuning got a bit irritating at times too.
He also has studied how irritating sodium lauryl sulfate can be for the skin. Times, Sunday Times
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To those who found it offensive, objectionable or even just irritating I can only ask for forgiveness.
AIDS (long-lasting diarrhea may be an early sign) inability to digest milk (mainly in severely malnourished children and certain adults) difficulty babies have digesting foods that are new to them allergies to certain foods (seafood, crayfish, etc.); occasionally babies are allergic to cow's milk or other milk side effects produced by certain medicines, such as ampicillin or tetracycline laxatives, purges, irritating or poisonous plants, certain poisons eating too much unripe fruit or heavy, greasy foods Chapter 20
Notice how the guy in the blazer keeps doing those irritating little tailwhip skids, which is the fixed-gear cycling equivalent of a "doucheclamation point," or of saying the word "fuckin'" too much when you're telling a story: Living in a World of Fools: How Deep is your Ride
The buzzer near his head sounded off blaring wails of irritating noise.
Yes, the first half of the week I was pretty terrified, and gripped the wheel almost to the point of painfulness; and I still get terribly lost, and frustrated when I do though increasingly less so; and I stress about people behind me, and irritating them, and getting honked at. Archive 2009-05-01
Katzenberg, 53, is the part genius, part egomaniac and part irritating little tick who Disney froze out.
She was staring outside, at the sun-kissed benches because her mind could not seem to bear her Biology teacher's irritating voice.
Choosing the right internet connection provider can mean the difference between speedy and consistent connections and irritating and maddening disconnections.
So much more interesting than the flat, filmed performances with irritating cutting that are now commonplace.
We understand that this constant credit information might become irritating for some users.
This fact helps explain the subtle hazard associated with this nonirritating gas.
Why get riled if this week's citizens are aggravatingly unreliable or irritatingly unpunctual?
Oh I am so glad you went off on a tangent and mentioned Eddie Murphy's annoying roles - reading about the irritating male friend that you called a cretin, kindly allow me to put Eddieee in that category. Funmi Desalu on Ugly Betty
I see myself in one sense as a zoo of conflicting desires each trying to clamour for my attention like a class of noisy children or a swarm of irritating pixies - you have to decide who to listen to and who to ignore.
There's even venison and steak for those irritating diners who go to seafood restaurants and choose meat.
The salt water is called an isotonic solution because it is a nonirritating mixture with the same saltiness as your body fluids.
But I can feel it lurking, like an irritating piece of meat stuck in your back teeth that you keep tonguing but can't get out.
Some people wanted a secure financial future, one wanted to be a role model, almost everyone wanted to escape the irritating buzz of the alarm clock every weekday morning.
Jennie has some touch of that greatness; Dreiser is forever calling her "a big woman"; it is a refrain almost as irritating as the "trig" of "The Titan. A Book of Prefaces
irritatingly shrill-voiced arguments
earworm" - a song that eats its way into your brain and refuses to budge for minutes or hours or days - can be irritating, but it's never been the focus of much study until researchers at the University of Montreal decided to look at obsessive melodies. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
But an irritating and inopportune appearance of honour made him hesitate to benefit from her rejection by Alfred at least for tonight.
He's already scampering about gamely looking like the kind of irritatingly perky euro teenager who might do a really embarrassing Big Brother audition tape. The Guardian World News
irritatingly, she is a chronic name-dropper
Irritating silly schoolgirlish giggling from the "journalists" while they were leading Vince Cable into their trap. Dr Cable: From Saint Vince to Mr Bean | Editorial
Plastic fiber insulation is relatively non-irritating to work with and doesn't readily burn.
Maureen's constant, fluting chatter, normally so irritating to him at breakfast time, passed over him without effect. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Ultimately, the rapper's voice - which is more irritating than a mosquito bite on the part of your back you can't scratch - supersedes any of the humour, while the rhymes are too basic to imbue the album with any redeeming content.
If you have sensitive skin, use hypoallergenic soaps, and avoid perfumed, antibacterial and deodorant soaps, which can be irritating.
Keran irritating as ever, even her hair ( vv fluffy) gets on my nerves. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
Motivation - particularly of the antagonist, Von Doom - was likewise absent, or, where it was articulated, it was in an irritating expository declamation by one of the primary characters on behalf of another.
The corrosive chemicals are irritating to the delicate lining of the gullet.
The hawking is very irritating to the inflamed throat and is often the reason the symptoms persist.
Noelle shook her head, her expression irritatingly condescending. Ominous
-- _Guide_, etc., pp. 28, 29.] [13] {19} [The "real Bonivard" might have indulged in and, perhaps, prided himself on this feeble and irritating _paronomasy_; but nothing can be less in keeping with the bearing and behaviour of the tragic and sententious Bonivard of the legend.] [14] [Compare -- The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
Gauderman believes chronic inflammation may play a role, with air pollutants irritating small airways on a daily basis.
Fungal infections can have effects ranging from an irritating patch of itchy skin to a life threatening condition.
I've said all the negative things I'm going to say, and I refuse to find anything positive about this irritatingly mindless tripe.
Sometimes they are irritating gits and sometimes they are just wonderful.
If possible, discontinuing certain medications, cleansers , creams, or makeup suspected of irritating your skin or making your melasma worse may improve your symptoms.
He has the irritating habit of biting his nails.
Leaving aside the inevitable demonising of the military, large corporations and industry, the lionising of noble savages in ecstatic pantheistic harmony with their computer game vegetation – all of which are irritating enough in their own right – the dialogue was so mind-numbingly trite, it make Titanic look like Proust. James Cameron, Avatar Aeolist « Anglican Samizdat
`Yes," Peik answered her, with the impatient gesture of brushing away an irritating fly. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
But if I had to teach intro X out of a textbook, or methods in underwater basketweaving out of a textbook, then I can see that any problems or boring parts of the book could be really irritating after a while. The New Edition Blues, part the second
Wherever we went we were followed by a sometimes annoyingly indistinct and sometimes annoyingly disruptive wallpaper of music ranging from the ambient and the classical to the irritating and the banal.
The fit around the waist is a little weird, but not enough to be irritating. The end of the road trip « Dyepot, Teapot
An annoying, smartass teenager or an irritating child prodigy is usually involved or you end up falling for the hostage and things just get too damn complicated. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Ollivier, the Prime-Minister, said openly: "The Government has no kind of disquietude; at no epoch has the maintenance of peace been more assured; on whatever side you look, you see no irritating question under discussion. The Duel Between France and Germany
This type is particularly irritating because their children invariably do well.
She could no longer keep up a pretense of bonhomie: his tone was irritating her. GALILEE
There are other irritating blights of the Internet age, like spam.
The nearly-hysterical reporter's assumption is that Switzerland must take in a few million immigrants so it will become "diverse," and thus no longer so irritatingly diverse from the rest of Europe. Anti-Teutonism is the anti-Semitism of the elite
I know they have to do this so it doesn't get mixed up with the non-organic produce, but it is still irritating.
The pace is glacial, with oodles of pages and paragraphs of leisurely descriptions of various preparations for the tourist season as well asthe domestic and inner lives of the cast of characters - in many cases rather irritating types in whom it is hard to care, frankly. March 2009
But when the band lose their songwriting puff, the effect is almost supernaturally irritating.
The hormones your body makes during pregnancy cause vaginal changes as well; clear, nonirritating vaginal secretions may increase. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
Today, the US trades confirmed the rumours that George Lucas is to bring his entire six-film Star Wars saga back to the big screen in stereoscopic vision, starting with 1999's The Phantom Menace (because blooming Jar Jar Binks 'fizzog will naturally be infinitely less irritating in three dimensions than it was in two) in 2012. Blurred vision on the 3D bandwagon
Creams are appropriate for patients with sensitive or dry skin who require a nonirritating, nondrying formulation.
Those who find all portable music irritating should be glad that the days of the ghetto blaster are gone. Times, Sunday Times
His visits to the shrine have been a thorn that is increasingly irritating relations between the two countries.
It has an irritatingly small backspace key and I think it has a horrible plastic feel, but this is purely subjective.
I just found it predictable, irritating and unentertaining. Times, Sunday Times

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