as in annoyed
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
it was the salesclerk's high-handed rudeness that really frosted me
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Recent Examples of frosted
Megan Angelo, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
The Thomas house sits close to the street and, with minimal fenestration besides a huge bank of Mondrian-style frosted windows alongside the front door, is oriented to take advantage of its high mountainside perch.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Except that four years later, on The Hills, Lauren Conrad passed it up for a guy with frosted tips and sleepy vibes.
—Megan Angelo, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
The Thomas house sits close to the street and, with minimal fenestration besides a huge bank of Mondrian-style frosted windows alongside the front door, is oriented to take advantage of its high mountainside perch.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Inside, attendees tipped flutes of champagne and catered cups of Korean food, followed by short bread cookies frosted with images of the flag and the eagle of San Francisco’s city seal.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frosted
Verb
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Everyone Lee comes into contact with is at minimum annoyed with him most of the time, if not outright hating him.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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Keanu, still annoyed from the veto ceremony, talked to Ava Pearl in the HOH room and called Rachel a liar.—
David Wysong,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Worn 30 to 45 minutes a day for 20 days, Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects can remove a decade’s worth of iced coffees, Diet Cokes, and chiantis, returning your mouth to mint condition and keeping it that way for months and months.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The iced pumpkin horchata latte from Mujer Divina Burrito and Coffee House is what Starbucks’ pumpkin spice latte dreams to be.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Think flying in spring water to a Caribbean island because a female client thought the local water irritated her scalp.—
Louis J. Esterhazy,
Footwear News,
7 Sep. 2025
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In fact, the aliens take a back seat to the human interactions, which irritated some viewers eager to see actual aliens in a show about an extraterrestrial invasion.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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From the frozen Arctic to the windswept Mongolian steppe, necessity and environment shaped diets that leaned heavily — sometimes almost entirely — on meat.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Processing channels like frozen, dried, purees, sauces, and meal kits offer enormous potential to utilize every strawberry, apple, and tomato that comes out of the field.—
Ivanka Trump,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Power gains are bugged to be too low for a new power grind that no one wants to do anyway.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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His not winning it was considered a failure, and that bugged him.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Consumers can find Oikos Fusion in Walmart's refrigerated section starting now, with a larger nationwide rollout at other retailers happening this fall.—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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When attendees asked about disposal, the rodeo’s organizers spoke vaguely of the zoo and mentioned LSU, but no trucks were in fact procured, refrigerated or otherwise.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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No one has bothered to figure out the degree to which that alters the scaling laws of AI models until now.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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The two were hardly bothered, though.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Cover with a clean kitchen towel and place on the middle rack of your unheated oven; place a bowl of warm water on the lower rack.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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Potted plants can be brought indoors during cold snaps, into a cool location such as an unheated garage.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Frosted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frosted. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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