Adjective : irritating questions. From Dictionary.com.
Those of you of a certain age may recall the irritatingly catchy song by Aqua called Barbie Girl which had as its lyrics the following. From Wordnik.com. [Blaney's Blarney] Reference
Mr. BLOUNT: You wouldn't - just because he has a funny little mustache that looks kind of irritatingly. From Wordnik.com. [Panel Round Two] Reference
The phone jangled irritatingly and he almost jumped. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Her ex-husband Steve looked irritatingly, fakely tan. From Wordnik.com. [Kumquat Soda] Reference
And yes, I'm now irritatingly calm -- most of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Sadie Nardini: Look Great Naked: Drop Pounds Fast With Yoga!] Reference
She looked into his face serenely, but a little irritatingly. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
I notice that I'm typing in this irritatingly ang-moh-pai tone. From Wordnik.com. [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference
It had taken him an irritatingly long time to find out the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Ungrateful Governess]
A fly began to batter itself irritatingly against the windowpane. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Haha, that Johnny is so egoistic and irritatingly cute in cartoons. From Wordnik.com. [preppy skirt day] Reference
In the past the League had been officious and irritatingly self important. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Broad Stripes & Bright StarsThe Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988] Reference
Children can be stubborn and very loudly and irritatingly fight against you. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jim Taylor: Parenting Advice: When to Win, When to Surrender] Reference
She was breathing more deeply now, hotly and irritatingly into his left ear. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
Is the most irritatingly profound that I have stumbled upon in recent memory. From Wordnik.com. [hamletwildie Diary Entry] Reference
Many women, it seemed, found him charming, stylish and irritatingly fanciable. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
It was grinding along in the heavy traffic irritatingly, stopping and starting. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Like Llewelyn – irritatingly like Llewelyn – he was also playing it cool now. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
The whole thing seems irritatingly appropriate – a locker room should be locked. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections on a Declining Transit System and Our Origins] Reference
McCain has been irritatingly successful in defining Obama over the past few weeks. From Wordnik.com. [New McCain Web Ad: "Hot Chicks Dig Obama"] Reference
Everyone feels irritatingly and ominously hopeful and hopeless, ecstatic and morose. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Heller: Things Could be Worse: It could be President McCain in 3 days] Reference
He's a sophomore at Emory and irritatingly lackadaisical (yes, I know I'm one to talk). From Wordnik.com. [anne-jumps Diary Entry] Reference
The first time I saw my new coachman, there was something irritatingly familiar about him. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
If they can monetize it creatively and non-irritatingly this could be an explosive service. From Wordnik.com. [Do You Need a Second Brain for the Internet?] Reference
Campion diagnosed the symptoms immediately and remained deliberately and irritatingly incurious. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Mr Campion]
It's far from being an improvement over the old world, but irritatingly they pretend that it is. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
The words "urban" and "suburban" are irritatingly vague, and used as both pejorative and praise. From Wordnik.com. [How Urban Should Your City Be?] Reference
"Come on, momma's sweet little freckled-face boy," she drawled in an irritatingly insulting voice. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
That's if he can find an irritatingly couthy Scots phrase to crowbar into his soundbite, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
But they think better, and they're far more independent in their views, sometimes almost irritatingly so. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom in the Making of Western Culture] Reference
Disgusted, he walked over to flick the power off, not wanting to read another irritatingly cryptic message. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
Indeed, his utterances on any subject they had all found to be irritatingly constrained and limited of late. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
"You know what I'dlike," he asked with that irritatingly boyish grin, "I'd really like to see you gain a few pounds.". From Wordnik.com. [Like An Endless Rain] Reference
The clock on the mantelpiece ticked irritatingly, and sounded the quarters at intervals which seemed curiously irregular. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
They were the longest, the dullest, the dreariest, the most irritatingly undelighting weeks that he had ever lived through. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Not exactly, 'said Campion, and as they walked over to the house together he remained thoughtful and irritatingly uncommunicative. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Mr Campion]
St. Simon's voice sounded harsh in Danley's earphones, and he felt irritatingly helpless poised floatingly above the ground that way. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
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