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Annoyance   /ənˈɔɪəns/   Listen
noun
Annoyance  n.  
1.
The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. "A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers." "For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies."
2.
That which annoys. "A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense."






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"Annoyance" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed a number of Felatah villages, whose inhabitants live there as they do in most other parts of Africa, attending to the pasturage of their cattle, without interfering in the customs of the country, or receiving any annoyance from the natives. Some of them, as they passed, brought them ...
— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston

... Tregars was too much a man of the world, and of the best world, to allow his features to betray the secret of his impressions; and yet, to any one who had known him well, a certain contraction of the eyelids would have revealed a serious annoyance and ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau

... of his ragged regiment, immediately beat a retreat, and his troop with him; one or two, as they went out, declaring that they would 'hammer' me whenever they caught me in the street. I, however, went and came as usual, and for some reason—perhaps the boss's declaration in my favour—met with no annoyance. ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 - Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 • Various

... I could see him in the old-time garden with Miss Anvoy, who would be certain, and very justly, to think him good- looking. It would be too much to describe myself as troubled by this play of surmise; but I occur to remember the relief, singular enough, of feeling it suddenly brushed away by an annoyance really much greater; an annoyance the result of its happening to come over me about that time with a rush that I was simply ashamed of Frank Saltram. There were limits after all, and my mark at ...
— The Coxon Fund • Henry James

... the winter school commenced; and Billy took up his abode at the poor-house, greatly to the satisfaction of Sally and Mary, and greatly to the annoyance of Miss Grundy, who, since Patsy's death, was crosser ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes


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