irritating

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ir·ri·tat·ing /ˈɪrəteɪtɪŋ/ ●●○ adjective  ANNOYan irritating habit, situation etc keeps annoying you 〔习惯、情况等〕烦人的，使人恼火的 He’s the most irritating man I’ve ever met. 他是我遇到过的最烦人的人。 He was smiling in a way I found very irritating. 他笑的样子使我恼火。irritating habit/characteristics/mannerisms She has an irritating habit of interrupting. 她有个烦人的习惯，就是老打断别人的话。 a dry irritating cough 令人痛苦的干咳 —irritatingly adverb

Examples from the Corpus

irritating• His blind refusal to break the rules and give us any information was so bloody irritating.• Since women's clay-to-day experience of irritating and offensive usage is unrelenting, this is obviously problematic.• Information-retrieval is often irritating and slow.• Sammy has an irritating habit of leaving the refrigerator door open while he's fixing something to eat.• a dog with an irritating, high-pitched bark• It's so irritating how Ellen always tries to finish people's sentences for them.• It turned out to be an irritating, sad day.• Nothing is more irritating than people who do not keep to the point and talk for too long.irritating habit/characteristics/mannerisms• Last year we had an irritating habit of losing; now we seem to be in a nasty spell of drawing matches.• You let off steam about an irritating habit of your boss's and the word gets back to him. 2.

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irritating
ir‧ri‧tat‧ing /ˈɪrəteɪtɪŋ, ˈɪrɪteɪtɪŋ/ adjective
an irritating habit, situation etc keeps annoying you:
    He’s the most irritating man I’ve ever met.
    He was smiling in a way I found very irritating.
    irritating habit/characteristics/mannerisms
    She has an irritating habit of interrupting.
    a dry irritating cough
—irritatingly adverb