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1806 La Belle Assemblée June 251/2 So annoyingly officious too, always marring our schemes.

1851 H. Spencer Social Statics xvii. §4 An unamiable little urchin..is perhaps annoyingly vociferous in his play.

1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xii. 141 The telephone cabinet..was so annoyingly labelled ‘Out of Order’.

1994 BBC Top Gear Aug. 17/1 At motorway speeds the engine drones annoyingly.

2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Apr. (T Style Mag.) 40/1 They are half my age, stupidly good-looking and annoyingly talented.

1861 H. Rhys Theatr. Trip for Wager vi. 58 Annoyingly enough, I had just invested all my superfluous cash in a set of fur robes.

1867 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 761/1 Still more annoyingly for the scientific observer, the same persons' hands change according to circumstances.

1950 Pop. Photogr. Jan. 122/3 Annoyingly enough, skiers in action sometimes appear to be frozen motionless in the pictures, even when you yourself are positive they were traveling faster than Mighty Mouse on a rescue mission.

2003 R. Herring Talking Cock 67 Annoyingly he is one of those blokes who put it around a bit in his youth, then felt all guilty about it, so devoted the rest of his life to telling everyone else they shouldn't do what he'd done.