(n.) The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
(n.) That which annoys.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked about white predominance in the sport, South African rugby journalist Paul Dobson replied: "If you suggest that again I'll get annoyed and put the phone down.
(2) He was 'annoyed' after a phone call with Maxine Carr, in which she'd told him she was going out 'again' with her mother that evening in Grimsby ('Do you like to control people?'
(3) When my pictures were published, some Star Wars fans were annoyed that the house in this picture had been left in such a state of disrepair.
(4) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
(5) Indeed, while people might be annoyed or alarmed at the idea of being given placebos, medics probably wouldn't need to were it not for the modern blight of the Worried Well clogging up consulting rooms.
(6) Although mumbling is frustrating and annoying at times, it may be a helpful clue to some of the client's most anxiety-provoking thoughts or feelings.
(7) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(8) It’s annoying that we haven’t stretched our lead but we’ve got to accept that and take it forward.
(9) It is difficult to prove that noise is detrimental to our health; many people are annoyed by noise; however, only particular groups (children, the elderly, the handicapped, people who wear a hearing aid, people with heart disease) are affected as far as health is concerned, and it is these people who require special protection.
(10) Noise in open-plan computer rooms and annoyance and perceived deterioration in performance associated with it also appears to be a problem that may be similarly categorized.
(11) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
(12) Our government understands that we have to help but if they send troops officially, that would annoy Europe, and Nato.
(13) Rather than getting annoyed, you’re feeling comforted.
(14) Amazon and MasterCard don't like it either, and their clients were probably annoyed.
(15) His annoyance was memorably captured by a BBC film crew for a documentary.
(16) And you can see that some writers' talents are fed by great exposure to society and then there are others – DH Lawrence is a good example – who think they want acceptance but actually they can't stand it and they've got to annoy people by pointing out uncomfortable things, and that's more me.
(17) Merkel will be annoyed that a group set up by the Tories has given a platform to her opponents.
(18) Information on safety and side effects is also presented, such as a possible increase in serum cholesterol levels and annoying side effects that may severely limit widespread use of this food supplement.
(19) After the second such call, my wife became annoyed at the intrusion he was making in our weekend.
(20) Irritations are mainly due to the particulate phase of environmental tobacco smoke, whereas the gas phase is to a large extent responsible for annoyance.
Sturt
Definition:
(v. i.) To vex; to annoy; to startle.
(n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care.
(n.) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of them proceed from crossings between psychiatric case register and death-register, and concern inpatients only (Brook, Giel, Saugstad, Mortensen, Herman, Haugland, Rorsman, Sturt, Winokur, Zilber).
(2) An Australian Greens MP, David Shoebridge, told NSW parliament it was “offensive in the extreme” that Dines was associated with Charles Sturt University’s policing programs.
(3) Gove also announced the appointment of a new director of prison security, Claudia Sturt, that governors in four prisons will be allowed maximum autonomy under current legislation from July, and urged governors to make greater use of the temporary licence release scheme.
(4) A pattern similar to that previously found in a younger sample (Sturt, 1981) was evident.
(5) Dines declined to comment on his role at Charles Sturt University.
(6) Tuesday 21 June Details Sydney Date: Wednesday 15 June Times: 7pm-8.30pm Location: Giant Dwarf, 199 Cleveland Street, Chippendale Price: $30 Melbourne Date: Tuesday 21 June Times: 7pm-8.30pm Location: The Coopers Malthouse Theatre, 113 Sturt Street, Southbank Price: $30 Returns policy Tickets are non-refundable.
(7) In 2010, he was hired by the Australian graduate school of policing and security at Charles Sturt University, near Sydney, where he is the associate head of school.
(8) Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian “Was Charles Sturt University aware of John Dines past before they employed him?
(9) The University of Technology, Sydney, the Australian National University and Charles Sturt all provided estimates of 30% to Guardian Australia, while the University of Canberra predicted a 20% rise.
(10) A morphogenetic map based on these sturt distances resembles more closely in size and shape that of a single thoracic segment than that of two or more adjacent segments, suggesting that the eye-antenna disc is derived from a single embryonic body segment.
(11) Victorian artist Robert Ingpen included seven petals on the sturt desert rose when he designed the flag – one for each of the six current states and one, sitting at the top, representing the north as the inevitable seventh.
(12) Tobias Sturt was head of creative at the Guardian’s digital agency and is now creative director of Graphic.
(13) The Guardian can reveal that for the past five years he has been working at Australia’s leading graduate police college at Charles Sturt University in Sydney where he is a course director on training courses.
(14) Led by Tobias Sturt and Adam Frost from Graphic, a specialist data visualisation agency, this fantastic class comprises a series of lectures and workshops, plus opportunities to get expert feedback on your work.
(15) Victorian artist Robert Ingpen included seven petals on the sturt desert rose when he designed the emblem in 1978; a petal for each of the six current states and one – at the top of course – for the North as the inevitable seventh.
(16) The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, said he feared Abbott was “far more concerned about Christopher Pyne’s job [in the SA seat of Sturt] than the jobs of hundreds of Victorian shipbuilders”.
(17) We examined the pattern of gynandromorph mosaicism and determined the "sturt distances" between 42 different structures of the head, antenna, and maxillary palpus.
(18) He must cease any involvement with teaching police in this state before a similar apology is needed by the New South Wales police.” Charles Sturt University’s executive dean of the faculty of arts, professor Tracey Green, said Dines’s role at the university as a business manager was “solely administrative” and did not involve police training.