But the researchers also reported 'an irritating tendency for some Ugandan subjects not to answer questions directly.

The intermarriage with the Dais has altered certain of the more irritating Arendish tendencies.

To make matters worse, she displays an irritating tendency to read O'Keeffe's entire life as a feminist text.

Engrossed in his task, and avoiding Norma (with her irritating tendency to point out his errors), he stared at his calculations.

A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddling idiot with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls.

Mr. de Botton also displays an irritating tendency in this book to deliver common-sense statements with an oracular and self-congratulatory air.

The kayak, while lighter than the canoe, had an irritating tendency to swerve into the mangroves when the passage got twisty.

You know, the type that's not really special, too shy, and with that irritating tendency of thinking too much?

He also has an irritating tendency to put some sort of facile exodus nonsense in his films.

He also had an irritating tendency to make simple things difficult.