irritate
verb (used with object)
to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
have been irritating
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present perfect progressiveof irritate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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It might have felt cute to you, but it may have been irritating, upsetting, or confusing to your wife.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2020
Last October a Pentagon's Defense Science Board panel warned of an info-attack threat well beyond that posed by the hackers who have been irritating the Pentagon for years.
From Time Magazine Archive
It might have been irritating had she ever struck him as having in her mind a stupid corner.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James
But must it not have been irritating to Parliament that the very men were promoted about whom it had complained?
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke
His caution had not been wasted, and his vigilance in guarding the ranchhouse must have been irritating to the man who had been watching.
From 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer
