irritance

In a sense it would be like the Terry Schiavo case, spending resources to affect very few people, to the great irritance of the vast majority of the country, to validate a lifestyle that hasn't been practiced for a long time in this country's culture.

Becker on Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Lwi jolted him with a butt of the head, one more irritance than he could

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

I'm sure that you posters who have been coming up with this vitriol wouldn't really pis* in someone's drink or set them on fire in real life, just for the sake of a social irritance.

London SE1 community website 2010

Of course I dont appreciate the real crappy spam that I get in my email box everyday but in reality this is rarely the mom and pop or newbie webmaster that are the major irritance, its the generic porn and prize winning spam that just keeps coming.

Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2008

For a person who loves having a slight taste of the apps and then uninstall it, the rating system proves to me a minor irritance.

Digital Terrorist 2008