annoying

“A most annoying business, Sherlock,” said he.

And the thing was so much the more annoying, as, according to the characteristic modesty of a Frenchman, Albert had quitted Paris with the full conviction that he had only to show himself in Italy to carry all before him, and that upon his return he should astonish the Parisian world with the recital of his numerous love-affairs.

Not bad for an idea that started with a few annoying seeds!

Jonah said, “I guess you are right about that annoying problem.”