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They could also rob us of some irritatingly catchy election slogans.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025

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

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

And it is made even thornier by the drama’s most disagreeable character, a victim of Fred’s, now grown up and portrayed all too irritatingly well by Tim Hopper.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

Irritating, and irritatingly familiar, like something she was supposed to remember but couldn’t.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart