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• v  cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
• v  excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
• v  excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
• s  causing irritation or annoyance
  an irritating delay
• s  (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite
• s  causing physical discomfort; they can be very painful"
  bites of black flies are more than irritating

• During the entire postelection ordeal, Boies was at its center daily, showing the all-news nation the astonishing gifts that have been thrilling his clients and irritating his more .
• Accordingly, it forbade Philip Morris from making any further claims that its cigarettes are "less irritating," and that "outstanding nose throat specialists" recommend them for .
• Robertson's propylene glycol vapor is odorless, tasteless, nontoxic, non-irritating, cheap, highly bactericidal.

• annoy
• rag
• get to
• bother
• get at
• irritate
• rile
• nark
• nettle
• gravel
• vex
• chafe
• devil
• annoying
• bothersome
• galling
• nettlesome
• pesky
• pestering
• pestiferous
• plaguy
• plaguey
• teasing
• vexatious
• vexing
• irritative
• painful

• soothe

News & Articles

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• Unleash your inner Buffy on office vampires
  About a year ago, I introduced you to "emotional vampires," a term created by a West Coast clinical psychologist to describe all the nasty, terrible, irritating people who drain our will to live.
  June 15, 2013 - Tampa Bay Times
• Irritating Mannerisms Can Cost Speakers Business Opportunities, Find the Edge Expert Says
  A communications expert has used an article published on Find the Edge today to identify some of the most irritating mannerisms speakers tend to exhibit, and to explain why they can be so damaging. (PRWeb June 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10835041.htm
  June 14, 2013 - PRWeb
• I Can't Stop Reading This Review of Tao Lin's New Novel
  We can and will stipulate first of all that Tao Lin is an overbearing self-publicist with a literary career attached, and that he is given to extremely irritating poses . This, however, tells us nothing about whether or not Tao Lin, as a novelist, has any artistic merit; there have been, historically, plenty of serious and important writers among the ranks of overbearing self-publicists, and ...
  June 13, 2013 - Gawker

Quotes

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• President Bush in Reuters
  And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org, or more afraid of irritating them, then they are of irritating the United States military,Bush added. "That was a...
• Derek Jeter in Yankees.com
  One thing that really upsets me a lot is when you hear everybody say it was the 'Steroid Era' and everybody was doing it. Well, that's not true,Jeter said on Wednesday. "Everybody wasn't doing it. That's the thing that gets irritating. I...
• Mario Theissen in AFP
  BMW Motorsport boss Mario Theissen said: "It is very simple. There are still some irritating efforts, which have surprised us. We still don't have an agreement, although I would say we are making progress, slowly but steadily. We cannot sit back and...