irksome

For more than decade, flying has been made irksome rather than pleasurable by an ever-increasing fortress culture at airports.

For most New Yorkers, there are few things as irksome as strangers accosting you on the street.

Even more irksome than the aphorisms is the obviousness of the advice.

They had no power of attention even to a story, and the stillness was irksome to such wild colts.

They are as impertinent as those people who stop you only to bore you; but the former are perhaps less irksome.

There is a boundary even to human patience; and now, after many days, Max Bray began to find his position very irksome.

Their harness is not apparently irksome to them, and is not so heavy as one sees on the Portuguese oxen, for instance.

It then grew very irksome to him to bear his irons, and he rarely went out to walk.