gratingly

Like the reverb is all over the place and there are certain other artefacts that are hard to describe but gratingly noticeable once you've spotted them.

You can normally skim some pages on Amazon to see if the prose style's going to be gratingly irritating to you or something.

It's not like LinkedIn was great before, but the business-influencer incentives there seem to have really juiced nonsense content that all feels gratingly similar.

It’s scenic as all hell, but also gratingly loud and unpleasant from the road noise (note the term is road noise not engine noise) Running next to >30mph street is a mentally taxing experience.

I hear these papers gratingly assuming the consequent with respect to the biggest mystery there is.

Setting aside the truth value of any religious claim — I find ‘Jesus **** Christ’ to be in gratingly poor taste.

Both are so gratingly painful even compared to normal cable television.

It's a combination of factors, but most gratingly for me, the training/onboarding program seems like more of a hazing ritual than any kind of training/onboarding.

All the accoutrements of interspersed personal narrative and details about rando other people she met along the way feel gratingly boring and indiosyncratic to me.

(Benevolent AI is just benevolent dictatorship with a veneer.) It's also gratingly at odds with very modern history.

I found your comment gratingly entitled, snarky and rude to someone who was only trying to help with something you are getting for free.

To my ears it sounds gratingly self-entitled.

(If you want to look into the latter, one place might be with the feeling behind that word "gratingly".) On HN, there's an additional don't-do-it: don't do it if it would take a thread on a generic tangent.

Another couple antipatterns I've noticed: - "We made the code twice as fast with this clever optimization" - Translation: we solved the issue badly with bad technology, thus making the simplest operations gratingly slow, our performance is 100x worse than the theoretical best possible.

But, the deplatformed and other types who are recently lamenting "the great fall of free speech" always offer the argument "who gets to decide what speech is acceptable?", which is a gratingly disingenuous position that pretends we don't have standards and laws, etc.

> we wouldn't have expressions like "totally unique" or the "most unique" I wouldn't normally bring this up, but while we're being pedantic, there are lots of reasonably common expressions that exhibit gratingly poor grammar or sematics.