Annoy

Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.

Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; / Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, / Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys.

You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians; your knowledge of the station confirms that they must have given you the layouts. Which not only compromises Bajoran security, but also... annoys us.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

VVe that ſuffer long anoy / Are contented vvith a thought / Through an idle fancie vvrought / O let my ioyes have ſome abiding.

[I]f she says he was defeated, why he had better, a great deal, have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy.

Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy […]

The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy; […]