Irritating
['ɪrɪteɪtɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) causing physical discomfort; 'bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful' .
(adj.) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; 'an irritative agent' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Irritate
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Examples
- Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The rain pours; Gardes-du-Corps go caracoling through the groups 'amid hisses'; irritating and agitating what is but dispersed here to reunite there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a most irritating end to every one of these debates. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Nancy, apparently fearful of irritating the housebreaker, sat with her eyes fixed upon the fire, as if she had been deaf to all that passed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- An irritating sense of thirst, and, when I strove to speak or move, an entire dereliction of power, was all I felt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- More; he irritated it, with a kind of perverse pleasure akin to that which a sick man sometimes has in irritating a wound upon his body. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That is no answer; or rather it is a very irritating, because a very evasive one. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He was very good-looking and self-contained, but his air of soldierly alertness was rather irritating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Its novelty made it the more irritating. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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