irritatingly

Example Sentences

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The epitome of low-budget high concept, this impressively sustained but often irritatingly overwritten real-time exercise features an ever-assured Johnson as a streetwise young traveler and Sean Penn as her very loquacious cab driver.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2023

If you’ve been anywhere near a TV screen during a football game in recent months, you might be familiar with these words and the irritatingly catchy melody they are set to.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

As such, it can feel irritatingly artificial and insubstantial — beneath the philosophical and literary veneer, there’s not a whole lot going on.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2023

During summer, this probably indicates overwatering, though it can also, irritatingly, mean underwatering.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2022

There was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman