Definition of annoyingly in US English:
annoyingly
adverbəˈnɔɪɪŋliəˈnoiiNGlē
In a way that causes irritation or annoyance.
the alarm clock rang annoyingly in her ear
as submodifier I was being annoyingly facetious earlier
sentence adverb even more annoyingly, I couldn't find my phone
Example sentencesExamples
- Being cheery doesn't have to equal being annoyingly chipper.
- She couldn't make out the lyrics, and the bass seemed annoyingly out of rhythm.
- Her annoyingly precocious daughter becomes the main conduit to the supernatural by way of the imaginary-friend device.
- He elongates the ends of all his sentences, so the words trail off annoyingly over the music.
- You'll have to untangle a lot of overly complicated chord changes and annoyingly high-pitched vocal turns to find anything else worth savoring.
- I remember a blimp advertising a local Internet service provider orbiting annoyingly outside my window.
- Annoyingly, a little voice popped up in my head and muttered, "At least he's here to tutor you."
- The whole thing bogs down to an annoyingly slow pace and then just confuses us with a weird ghost story.
- Annoyingly, he was still wearing that smirk, his pale eyes narrowed into near slits.
- The radio-controlled toy helicopter buzzes annoyingly, like a huge mosquito, around a figure attempting to sleep.