annoy
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Synonyms
aggravate, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, eat, exasperate, frost, gall, get, grate, gripe, hack (off), irk, irritate, itch, nark [British], nettle, peeve, persecute, pique, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, spite, vex
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Authorities also ruled against residents of a village in the French Alps who complained in 2017 about annoying cow bells, and an effort last year to push out cicadas from a southern town to protect tourists from their summer song also failed. — NBC News, "'I've gotta crow': Maurice the French rooster wins courtroom cock fight," 5 Sep. 2019 Boxers often get annoyed when fans beg them to stop. — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, "Manny Pacquiao Might Be Making a Terrible Mistake," 18 July 2019 State party insiders are annoyed with Hickenlooper — some openly pushing him to run for the U.S. Senate instead. — Nic Garcia, The Denver Post, "John Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign is on pundits’ death watch," 1 Aug. 2019 He was annoyed that Cummings stood alongside Democratic leaders discussing the possibility of impeachment following testimony by the former special counsel. — Author: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Robert Costa, Anchorage Daily News, "How Trump seized on a Fox News broadcast to go after Cummings," 30 July 2019 He’d been annoyed by unwanted touching at parties in the past, but found this variant—rooted in a specific place and set of people—charming. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Cruising in the Age of Consent," 19 June 2019 But the experience rankled him—he was particularly annoyed by how Medvedev reacted to the Arab Spring protests in 2011. — Mikhail Zygar, Time, "Putin Believes He's Destined to Make Russia Great Again. And He's Just Getting Started," 19 Mar. 2018 The technique for compliance as outlined in the bill, however, seems to be to annoy consumers into abandoning their social accounts altogether. — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, "Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video," 30 July 2019 What’s the best way to annoy someone into turning email tracking off? — Verge Staff, The Verge, "Everything you need to know about the invisible e-mail tool that tracks you," 3 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'annoy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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