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131irritating — adj 1. provoking, agitating, inflaming, inflammatory, enflaming, kindling; inciting, igniting, instigating. 2. angering, incensing, irksome, irking; maddening, infuriating, enraging; exacerbating, rankling, galling, embittering. 3. nettlesome,… …
132mortifying — adj 1. humiliating, humbling; shameful, disgraceful, Obs. reproachful; disreputable, disfavorable, discreditable. 2. belittling, derogatory, deprecatory, disparaging, depreciatory, demeaning, deflating. 3. confusing, perplexing, bewildering,… …
