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• Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
• In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
• Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.
• Connie liked to annoy her brother by using him as a leg rest.
• to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
• tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
• I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.
• if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy.
• Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].
• The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].
• I’m trying to study. Stop annoying me.