irritating

The dishonesty of this response is irritating, of course.

“I said, ‘Ryan talked to me and I guess he’s cool, it’s fine,’ and she was like, ‘It’s bad,’ trying to make me scared or something, which was a little irritating.”

“These Dodgers fans are really irritating. After the game is over, they come order pizza. They place their order and then say, ‘I didn’t order that.’

A mild Santa Ana wind can be irritating, giving people nosebleeds and blowing sand in their eyes, but the more severe events can have deadly consequences.

In that Howard Stern biopic, Stern is driven to greater and greater heights of bad behavior by his irritating station manager Pig Vomit, played by Paul Giamatti.