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
The knowledge of it gave him an air and an independence of manner which might have been irritating to some.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
In another this attitude of gentle disapproval would have been irritating, but Rita loved and admired Margaret, and suffered accordingly.
From Dope by Sax Rohmer
The mother was no doubt an irritating woman and the privates of that regiment appeared to have been irritating, too, so that the house was a place of outcries and perpetual disturbances.
From The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
