Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing vexation or irritation; troublesome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That annoys; molesting; vexatious.
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- adjective Causing
irritation orannoyance ;troublesome ;vexatious . - verb Present participle of
annoy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing irritation or annoyance
- noun the act of troubling or annoying someone
Etymologies
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Examples
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What makes them so annoying is their assumption that they're doing us a favor by sharing their gloom and we ought to be grateful for having our day ruined, because, you know, they're enlightening us.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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The reason some of you find Greenwald annoying is because he has you absolutely dead to rights
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"And in New York, hurting people's feelings or being annoying is not a crime, we call that Monday."
Jurors Grapple With Question Of Identity Theft In Dead Sea Scrolls Case AP 2010
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But, what's annoying is the notion of Williams as some new racial cause célèbre, that his case was a multimedia Rodney King beat down by a bad blue NPR getting happy with microphone nightsticks.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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But, what's annoying is the notion of Williams as some new racial cause célèbre, that his case was a multimedia Rodney King beat down by a bad blue NPR getting happy with microphone nightsticks.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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"And in New York, hurting people's feelings or being annoying is not a crime, we call that Monday."
Jurors Grapple With Question Of Identity Theft In Dead Sea Scrolls Case AP 2010
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"And in New York, hurting people's feelings or being annoying is not a crime, we call that Monday."
Jurors Grapple With Question Of Identity Theft In Dead Sea Scrolls Case AP 2010
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"And in New York, hurting people's feelings or being annoying is not a crime, we call that Monday."
Jurors Grapple With Question Of Identity Theft In Dead Sea Scrolls Case AP 2010
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"And in New York, hurting people's feelings or being annoying is not a crime, we call that Monday."
Jurors Grapple With Question Of Identity Theft In Dead Sea Scrolls Case AP 2010
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But, what's annoying is the notion of Williams as some new racial cause célèbre, that his case was a multimedia Rodney King beat down by a bad blue NPR getting happy with microphone nightsticks.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
jeen0809 commented on the word annoying
I live with an annoying creature called 'my sister'.
April 7, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word annoying
Ambiguity between adjective and verb:
PhoneSpamFilter.com is a free service designed to assist the general public in determining which callers are annoying telemarketers.
September 4, 2008