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词汇 irked
释义 irked
past simple and past participle ofirk
irk
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ɜːk/ us /ɝːk/
to annoy someone: 激怒某人,惹(某人)生气
The negative reply to my complaint really irked me.对我的投诉的否定回复着实令我气恼。
Synonym
gall
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to annoy someone
annoyIt annoys me that you're always late.
botherIt bothers me that you don't help with the washing up.
irritateAfter a while her behaviour really began to irritate me.
peeveWhat peeved her most was that he hadn't even called her.
bugHe's been bugging me all morning.
aggravateIt really aggravates me the way he never thanks me for what I've done.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing feelings of anger and displeasure
aggravate
aggrieve
alienate
anger
annoy
bend
go too faridiom
goat
grate
hack someone off
harass
joke
nark
nose
rub someone up the wrong wayidiom
ruffle
ruffle someone's feathersidiom
set someone's teeth on edgeidiom
step/tread on someone's toesidiom
tit

Examples of irked


irked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Many are proud of this ownership and many more are irked and even infuriated by it, but the fact of the ownership remains.
The general public is irked by the anonymity and indifference of capitalism and resorts instead to familiar and tried and tested networks.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I have in the past sometimes been a little irked by rulings which have been given to my disfavour.
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They are additionally irked because they still have to pay increased rates as a result of building a garage.
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What has irked it until recently has been that the true facts have not been clearly and sufficiently appreciated.
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But they have been irked at the fact that their chance of engaging themselves in bulk against the enemy has been so long in coming.
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Some local authorities have been irked, as has been made plain in the debate, and frustrated, by their limited status.
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He says that he feels greatly irked when he hears people say that there is a military solution—that irks me too—and that there is a political solution.
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This matter has been going on since 1985 and the local authority and local people are becoming extremely irked and cross because nothing has been done.
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And he is irked by the new-found freedom that the villagers and their children seem to enjoy.
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He had kept abreast of national politics since college, though, and the circumstances of his father's presidential campaign loss had irked him for decades.
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He was assigned to training recruits, but this rear-echelon role irked him.
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He is especially irked by cases involving unfilial children or adolescent offenders with no regard for authority.
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This irked the state and a plethora of plots against him were made.
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He was also irked by hearing his father's peace-loving stance perpetually celebrated.
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