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The act of troubling or annoying someone
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annoyance
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Word definitions for annoyance in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB feel ▪ She felt a needle of annoyance goading her to retaliate. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I like to stay up late most nights, much to the annoyance of my girlfriend. ▪ It's such an annoyance to have to drive you ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of annoying," from Old French enoiance "ill-humor, irritation," from anuiant , present participle of anuier "to be troublesome, annoy, harass" (see annoy ). Meaning "state of being annoyed" is from c.1500. Earlier, annoying was used in the ...
Usage examples of annoyance.
This time Colbert seemed to walk in concert with the bishop of Vannes, and had he received for every annoyance which he inflicted on the king a word of direction from Aramis, he could not have done better.
All I would do was annoy Sir Umbrage, who was already in an apprehensive enough mood, and the other knights and squires in the company who seemed to regard my presence as something of an aberration at best, an annoyance at worst.
Radiating annoyance, Gerard was cleaning his spectacles with his handkerchief in a way that could only be described as aggressive.
Nicholas sighed in annoyance and looked at the Capidaran man standing in the stairwell, who smiled apologetically and made a helpless gesture.
Tremaine thought, watching his whole body stiffen with annoyance, more mad at herself than him.
Her palms had sweated onto the cloth cover of the book and she set it aside, wiping her hands off on her pants, swearing in annoyance as she realized she was trembling.
Tremaine let her breath out in annoyance, exchanged a jaundiced look with Gerard, and followed.
Ensign Gage burst into the room, her expression warring between annoyance and chagrin.
A sultry voice, tinged with annoyance, made all heads swivel to the open door way.
Quickly and with the strength of my annoyance did I use the haft portion of the spear to rap sharply at the shin of first Ceralt and then Mehrayn, ending their exchange and sending them back from each other with yelps of pain.
Her thoughts had already resubmerged her in private considerations, therefore did she see naught of the annoyance which surely flared within me.
Aysayn as I did no more than bring the insulted annoyance of my gaze back to a Galiose who saw naught of it.
Briefly did he look upon me with annoyance, and then he turned to Aysayn.
Though Chaldrin followed me, he, too, at times sought to command me to the path he considered best, an annoyance I found difficult to bear just then.
Also I felt an undeniable attraction to this male that caused me only annoyance and bewilderment.