aggravating

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This system is just clunky and at times aggravating, as it chooses to focus on the middle of Noby Noby Boy, rather than his head or rear end, and persistent fiddling is needed to get the desired results.

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  1. Making worse or more heinous: as, aggravating circumstances. Provoking; annoying; exasperating: as, he is an aggravating fellow. [Colloquial] Which makes it only the more aggravating. Thackeray.

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  • Particularly aggravating was a thicket of stunted palms which they encountered, the needled tips of these making disagreeable going In about an hour they came to a stream of boiling water. —  119 - The Time Terror
  • Just as aggravating is the impact the illegals have on local healthcare and educational systems. —  Latest Articles
  • This system is just clunky and at times aggravating, as it chooses to focus on the middle of Noby Noby Boy, rather than his head or rear end, and persistent fiddling is needed to get the desired results. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Most aggravating, the gutteral emotive screams Springsteen had in half of those songs just weren't done! —  Punknews.org
  • To make it more aggravating, the funds are going to go down especially hard thanks to —  Libertarian Blog Place
 

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/ˈægrəveɪtɪŋ/
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