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Adjective

Causing irritation or annoyance

Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed

Very unpleasant to the senses

Uncooperative and difficult to deal with

Deserving of condemnation or execration

Causing one to feel bored

Rude and caustic in manner or expression

Tending to misbehave or act badly

Feeling upset, annoyed or angry

Shunned or disliked by others

Interfering or meddling in the affairs of others

Persistent in one's demands, often annoyingly so

Ironic in nature, usually in an absurd or annoying way

Verb

To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

(somewhat rare) Bringing harm or injury to

To be inspiring boredom

Noun

The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone

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Adjective

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Causing irritation or annoyance

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

enough to drive you up the wall

enough to try the patience of a saint

unfavorable^US

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

labored^US

laboured^UK

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“I found his unfunny jokes incredibly annoying.”

Adjective

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Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed

ill-humored^US

libellous^UK

libelous^US

unfavorable^US

politically incorrect

dishonoring^US

minimizing^US

minimising^UK

libeling^US

libelling^UK

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Adjective

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Very unpleasant to the senses

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

sombre^UK

somber^US

ill-favored^US

off-colour^UK

off-color^US

strictly for the birds

humourless^UK

humorless^US

unfavorable^US

fetid^US

foetid^UK

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

gray^US

grey^UK

too horrible for words

as plain as a pikestaff

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

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Adjective

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Uncooperative and difficult to deal with

obstinately disobedient

unfavorable^US

having a chip on one's shoulder

disinclined to accept

cavilling^UK

quarreling^US

quarrelling^UK

caviling^US

without law and order

unfavourably disposed to

untrammeled^US

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Adjective

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Deserving of condemnation or execration

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Adjective

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Causing one to feel bored

colorless^US

colourless^UK

lacklustre^UK

lackluster^US

anaemic^UK

anemic^US

laboured^UK

labored^US

nothing to write home about

flavourless^UK

flavorless^US

driveling^US

drivelling^UK

wintry^US

wintery^UK

not amounting to much

meager^US

meagre^UK

gray^US

grey^UK

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

nothing to get excited about

sombre^UK

somber^US

blending into the background

neither one thing nor the other

nothing out of the ordinary

paralysed^UK

paralyzed^US

of little consequence

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Adjective

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Rude and caustic in manner or expression

rubbing the wrong way

ill-humored^US

Adjective

Tending to misbehave or act badly

off straight and narrow

obstinately disobedient

unfavorable^US

without law and order

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Adjective

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Feeling upset, annoyed or angry

as cross as two sticks

ill-humored^US

antagonized^US

antagonised^UK

with all guns blazing

scandalized^US

scandalised^UK

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

with a chip on your shoulder

beside yourself with rage

unimpressed

reproachful

excited

burning with excitement

sombre^UK

somber^US

dishonored^US

dishonoured^UK

with chip on shoulder

having got out of bed on the wrong side

like a bear with a sore head

having got out of bed the wrong side

humourless^UK

humorless^US

apt to fly off the handle

having a fit of the sulks

got up on wrong side of bed

carrying a chip on your shoulder

gray^US

grey^UK

have chip on shoulder

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Adjective

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Shunned or disliked by others

ostracized^US

ostracised^UK

ill-favored^US

in bad odor^US

in someone's black books

in someone's bad books

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Adjective

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Interfering or meddling in the affairs of others

inquiring^US

enquiring^UK

chiseling^US

chiselling^UK

burning with curiosity

sceptical^UK

focused^US

skeptical^US

focussed^UK

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Adjective

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Persistent in one's demands, often annoyingly so

Adjective

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Ironic in nature, usually in an absurd or annoying way

flakey^US

flaky^UK

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Verb

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To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting someone's goat

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting someone's dander up

getting your back up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

getting on someone's nerves

getting someone's wick

ruffling someone's feathers

getting in someone's hair

rattling someone's cage

trying someone's patience

getting on someone's tits

getting someone's hackles up

getting under someone's skin

making someone's hackles rise

getting someone's back up

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

getting on one's nerves

rubbing the wrong way

making somebody's hackles rise

hurting somebody's feelings

ruffling one's feathers

getting up someone's nose

getting your dander up

tantalizing^US

getting your hackles up

putting someone's nose out of joint

shaking up

imposing on

giving a bad time

tantalising^UK

bending someone's ear

putting to trouble

driving you up the wall

getting across someone

setting one's teeth on edge

making unhappy

scandalising^UK

weighing on

causing discomfort to

poking fun at

making sport of

losing sleep

breathing down someone's neck

trying the patience of

rubbing you up the wrong way

hanging up

getting a rise out of

working up

knocking for six

taking the piss out of

victimizing^US

criticizing^US

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

making it hot for someone

sticking in one's craw

criticising^UK

inflicting anguish on

putting in a spot

making uncomfortable

ragging on

making things hot for someone

making someone fed up

victimising^UK

getting on the wrong side of

terrorizing^US

causing resentment to

wigging

getting on someone

running up the wrong way

pushing someon's buttons

messing

barracking

booing

getting on the nerves of

getting in the hair of

pushing one's buttons

making someone scratch their head

belabouring^UK

making an enemy of somebody

terrorising^UK

upsetting the applecart

grizzling

putting to some trouble

bringing pressure to bear on

tiring out

leaning on

putting pressure on

making severe demands on

searching high heaven

noodging

bullyragging

driving you crazy

hurting the feelings of

tearing to pieces

knocking the wind out of

making your gorge rise

harshing one's mellow

driving you out of your mind

driving you off your head

making you see red

driving you round the twist

driving out of mind

driving you to distraction

making somebody's blood boil

driving you round the bend

giving the cold shoulder

filling with loathing

giving a zinger

grinding

pushing the buttons of

playing cat and mouse

shouting catcalls at

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

causing inconvenience to

imposing upon

creating difficulties for

disengaging

detaching

sending over the edge

breaking the heart of

jumping on one's case

giving the needle

falling on

putting the squeeze on

tyrannizing^US

belaboring^US

tyrannising^UK

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

bringing tears to your eyes

knocking the stuffing out of

breaking someone's heart

harshing someone's mellow

giving someone the blues

taking the wind out of your sails

dampening the spirits of

causing to lose heart

carrying a heavy load

getting into a dither

putting someone off their stroke

making nervous

causing someone to lose their composure

giving someone bother

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

having an adverse effect on

striking down

going against the grain

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

satirizing^US

satirising^UK

pulling someone's leg

going through the mill

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“The incessant spreading of goodwill would eventually begin annoying some less tolerant folks.”

Verb

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(somewhat rare) Bringing harm or injury to

vandalizing^US

vandalising^UK

“Their attacks might be little, but they are annoying this rebel hellion.”

Verb

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To be inspiring boredom

Noun

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The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone

offence^UK

being rubbed up the wrong way

offense^US

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