Word: annoying
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...Yankee front office often wondered whether it had a tiger by the tail. Ford's flip self-confidence and wry, big-city wisecracks seemed to annoy the brass-hats even more than his winning pleased them. "He's one of those typically fresh New York kids who aggravate you out of sheer contrariness," ex-General Manager George Weiss once said. In 1957 he was fined $1,000 when he and five teammates got into a post-midnight brawl at the Copacabana while celebrating ex-Yankee infielder Billy Martin's 29th birthday...
...When you meet an elephant on the road," says the helpful Uganda government in its hints to travelers, "do not blow your horn. This may annoy him." Merely stop some distance away and rev your engine, and he will step aside. If, on the other hand, the traveler has no engine to rev, there should be no disputing the right of way-the visitor would do well to rev his feet and get out in a hurry...
...state that Cambodia follows a policy of "capricious neutralism." We are astonished at the fertile imagination of your writers in finding derogatory adjectives which, in addition to being inaccurate, seem to be calculated to needle and annoy...
...failed to get congressional permission before leaving the country to attend the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan. The chances are that the impeachment trial will get pigeonholed by the Senate. The nation is beginning to feel the effect of a stabilized economy, and only a foolish politician would annoy the voters...
...wealth to help out his friends, including the caricaturist Daumier, who -impoverished and nearly blind-was about to be evicted from his cottage. Corot bought another cottage for Daumier and sent along a tongue-in-cheek explanation: "It is not for you I do this; it is merely to annoy your landlord...