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annoy::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| Type of | displease |
| Has types | antagonize, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, ruffle, antagonise, eat into, fret, get, get under one's skin, grate, harass, harry, hassle, molest, peeve, plague, provoke, rankle |
| Verb group | chafe |
| Derivation | annoyance, annoyer |
Examples of annoy
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The Blue Devils can annoy an opponent until its corner is throwing in the towel.
From the sportingnews.com
Those fees don't annoy passengers in the way that charging them for a soda does.
From the economist.com
Let's see if we can annoy our betters and their friends in the newspapers again.
From the guardian.co.uk
We don't want to annoy the public that's why we have chosen to do it quite late.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Seriously, is he just setting out to annoy people, or is he really this annoying?
From the guardian.co.uk
I did this because hesitation words annoy the listener, even if only gradually.
From the badlanguage.net
That may annoy people who make their living from flip-charts and bullet points.
From the economist.com
That's a big part of why the timidity claim against the central banks annoy me.
From the economist.com
Annoy your playing partners when you keep taking out your iPhone on the course.
From the forbes.com
- Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
- (annoyed) aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"
- (annoyed) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"
- (annoying) annoyance: the act of troubling or annoying someone
- Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. The property of being easily annoyed is called petulance, and something which annoys is called a nuisance.
- A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; That which causes such a feeling; To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds; To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome; To molest; to harm; to injure
- (annoyed) Troubled, irritated by something unwanted or unliked; vexed
- (annoyed) "I'm very annoyed with him. He hasn't returned any of my calls"
- (annoyed) (this is Terra-Xehanort; we need to find a better image than the one I currently have and make a new one)
