At the moment, Kira found the smile slightly irritating, even smug.

It is a colourless liquid with a slightly irritating, fruity odour.

The problem isn't serious, just a slightly irritating hunting when you're trying to maintain a steady speed.

It also had the slightly irritating habit of answering questions before Lioren could ask them.

(to use Bourne's slightly irritating use of the exclamation mark).

All at once her jeans seemed too tight, slightly irritating in a pleasant sort of way.

Yes, she's slightly irritating, but in the real world would a man like Tony honestly have a constant stream of girlfriends?

Once, turning 30 was slightly irritating, an embarrassing passage, and people were in no mood to broadcast the news.

It is slightly irritating to the skin and mildly irritating to the eyes(12,13).

What response should be made to these infamous but slightly irritating counter-examples?