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 James, Henry

In another this attitude of gentle disapproval would have been irritating, but Rita loved and admired Margaret, and suffered accordingly.

From Dope by Rohmer, Sax

Count von Herzmann merely shrugged his shoulders at this piece of news which must have been irritating in the extreme.

From Aces Up by Clarke, Covington