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irritating

 adjective
     
ir‧ri‧tat‧ing
an irritating habit, situation etc keeps annoying you:
He's the most irritating man I've ever met.
He was smiling in a way I found very irritating.
irritating habit/characteristics/mannerisms
She has an irritating habit of interrupting.
a dry irritating cough
—irritatingly adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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