Words similar to annoy

Example sentences for: annoy

How can you use “annoy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The marketing juggernaut, derivative music, and moronic lyrics annoy music writers.
You're absolutely right about companies' trying to frustrate and annoy their customers.
Declassified documents revealed new details about "Operation Mongoose," the campaign to murder and otherwise annoy Fidel Castro.
But while Muhlenberg's voting record in the Third Congress did not seem to annoy his German American constituents, they did react quite strongly when, as Speaker of the Fourth Congress, he stepped down and cast the deciding negative vote against the Jay Treaty.
The answers are a nice springboard for talking about: 1) how you go about reforming language, and what limitations you'd face (just saying it won't make it so); 2) how expressions like "you know" actually function linguistically (people aren't saying "you know" just to annoy you, even if that's the effect); and 3) the nature of language etiquette, taboo, euphemism, and context.