Irritating
Irritating adjective - Causing annoyance.
Mean and irritating are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Irritating".
Mean
Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.
Irritating and mean are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Irritating" instead an adjective "Mean".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Kotonoha finds her little sister rather irritating at times, even though Kokoro does mean well.
Source: Visual Novel / Shiny Days -
This isn't to mean this practice is bad, just somewhat irritating to the purist.
Source: Digital Bikini - In The Bishop's Gambit we learn that the Bishopric of Truro is reserved for extremely irritating Anglican priests (by which we mean "priests who actually believe in God"), on the grounds that it is "very remote." (It's in Cornwall).
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