as in irritatingly
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Recent Examples of annoyingly
The last two episodes give the first real indications that the show is capable of being smartly tricky with its structure and timeline, rather than just annoyingly evasive.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
Tyler’s love for hip-hop as an art form in the purest sense of the word is almost annoyingly well-documented.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile Bruce’s mom (Gaby Hoffmann), whom the kid is fiercely protective of, is left annoyingly unexplored.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The cable is a little over 3 feet long, a good length for connecting with a laptop or USB dock, but annoyingly short for a desktop tower placed farther from your work area.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
There is, of course, a difference here, that being the fact that Netflix has annoyingly split season 2 of Wednesday into two parts, with the second airing on September 3, a month after the first.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annoyingly
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No Diego Luna for Best Actor, no Stellan Skarsgård for Best Supporting Actor, no Elizabeth Dulau for Best Supporting Actress, and, most irritatingly of all, no Genevieve O’Reilly for Best Actress.—
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Sennott and her costars speak with an irritatingly fake affect, are shallower than a puddle in the desert and prize selfishness, indolence and artifice.—
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Free speech has become a major liability in a disgustingly litigious society.—
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These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.—
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That can be forgiven thanks to the film’s evocative imagery and the emotional resonance of its central themes, distressingly familiar to anyone who has ever lost themselves in a relationship.—
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Reports of politically motivated violence are distressingly common – ranging from mass shootings, car-ramming attacks and assaults at demonstrations to assassination attempts, kidnappings and threats targeting mayors, governors, political activists and members of Congress.—
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Alongside the investigation into Anders’s kidnapping and death, Elsbeth is managing another aspect of her social life and her complicated feelings about a character who’s gone but vexingly unforgettable.—
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But his spasms, vexingly, grew more frequent and severe.—
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That combination is proving alarmingly effective for cybercriminals.—
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Grief gets layered on top of grief and secrets stack sky high as suburban normalcy decays into something at once alarmingly unstable and comfortingly funny.—
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Perhaps most disturbingly, the research lab’s satellite images have documented activity consistent with the mass burning of human corpses.—
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Rhys’ Nile is disturbingly intense, yet can’t match the sheer oddity that made Durst both so compelling to watch and so believable as a killer.—
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“Annoyingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annoyingly. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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