Meaning of irritatingness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being irritating.

uncountable

Examples

“There is much clever character drawing, especially in the case of Mrs. Sirgood, the mother-in-law of the wavering wife. She is a masterpiece of feminine irritatingness, irritating even to read about, yet painfully true to life.”

“The comet presently became annoyed and alarmed, especially as it seemed that the asbestos fibre had become lodged in its teeth with the irritatingness of a fishbone on one’s tongue.”

“We keep fairly cool up here—but you’ll have more or less to camp, help with the chores and all that. You won’t be particularly comfortable. And of course society is strictly limited. But you can always depart when you’ve had enough, and in the meantime it’s not bad. I will keep my irritatingness in bounds, I hope.”

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