as in annoying
causing annoyance
an abrasive display of rude behavior
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Recent Examples of abrasive
For your glass cooktop, avoid harsh chemicals and abrasive sponges.
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Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Madeleine Sami’s Eddie Redcliffe is abrasive and obnoxious and inappropriate and great fun all at once.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
La Salle arguably outshines Clooney as well with his more abrasive brand of charm.
—John Russell, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
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Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Madeleine Sami’s Eddie Redcliffe is abrasive and obnoxious and inappropriate and great fun all at once.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
La Salle arguably outshines Clooney as well with his more abrasive brand of charm.
—John Russell, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abrasive
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By Marci Robin December 19, 2024 Normally, know-it-alls are kind of annoying.Marci Robin, Allure, 19 Dec. 2024
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But for Netflix’s biggest series, as annoying as this is, there are not exactly mountains of evidence that this matters for its biggest series.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Inspiring or irritating, empowering or exploitative, maternal or manipulative — with many shades of gray in between — female mentorship is a common dynamic in many of 2024’s most affecting stories.Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
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Windows 11 is still an appalling tablet OS with a crippling lack of touch-friendly apps, and the stylus has an irritating input lag that makes scribbling on screen unsatisfactory.Barry Collins, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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However, the past two seasons have been frustrating for Alexander, as injuries have plagued him since his career year in 2022.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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And yet the overuse of this crutch was frustrating last night, most of all because Short suffered for it.Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
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One of the more disturbing results was from the dinner party at the Brooklyn apartment of my ProPublica colleague.Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
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Duchamp spent the last twenty years of his life working in secret on a three-dimensional tableau vivant of a naked, headless female body in a realistic landscape, a strangely disturbing image that is both a summary of his meta-retinal art and a total departure from it.Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Abrasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abrasive. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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