irritatingly
- a word derived from irritating.
Example Sentences
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And when Lucy’s brother asks a suspicious transplant from Vault 31 how the two bunkers differ, she provides the purposely bland and irritatingly evasive answer: “I guess the mashed potatoes were a little different.”
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024
The epitome of low-budget high concept, this impressively sustained but often irritatingly overwritten real-time exercise features an ever-assured Johnson as a streetwise young traveler and Sean Penn as her very loquacious cab driver.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2023
If you’ve been anywhere near a TV screen during a football game in recent months, you might be familiar with these words and the irritatingly catchy melody they are set to.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023
As such, it can feel irritatingly artificial and insubstantial — beneath the philosophical and literary veneer, there’s not a whole lot going on.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2023
She never put herself forward, but kept her position respectfully equal with other people, and she did not say irritatingly clever things.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
