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[ adjective ] causing irritation or annoyance

Examples

"tapping an annoying rhythm" "a particularly bothersome noise" "found it galling to have to ask permission" "an irritating delay" "nettlesome paperwork" "a pesky mosquito" "swarms of pestering gnats"

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

I have found , time_and_again , that some bit of particularly annoying and intractable behavior on the part of a patient rests , in_the_final_analysis , on this basis ; and only when I can acknowledge this , to myself , as being indeed an aspect of my personality , does it cease to be a prominently troublesome aspect of the patient 's behavior .

Related terms

disagreeable

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[ noun ] the act of troubling or annoying someone
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