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Example sentences for: irritate

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When Nields used proceeds , he was passing up a chance to irritate or challenge North, for the connotations are completely different.
Arendt's conception of the public was phrased in quasimilitaristic language almost expressly designed to irritate feminists (it didn't, but only because they had stopped listening).
But it's not Dowd's views that irritate her critics so much as her style and her attitude.
King Edward VIII used to irritate his father, George V, by pronouncing lady as “LIDY” (to rhyme with tidy ), and when he became Duke of Windsor he further upset everyone by following his wife's pronunciation of Duke as “DOOK.”
Chemical contaminants in sludges, which irritate the skin and mucous membranes, may be responsible for an increased host susceptibility.