Example Sentences

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Sir… is described as “tweedpunk”, a somewhat unpalatable term representing an irksomely useful shorthand.

From Forbes • Aug. 27, 2013

A related set of concerns: Is the previous question irksomely PC or sentimental?

From Time • Jan. 18, 2013

Ms. Wall said that though most Americans have a specific idea of what constitutes Thanksgiving dinner, the sparse descriptions available of the 1621 feast are irksomely vague as to the menu.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2011

A first impression makes the chorus a weighty, urgent, ambiguous frame around three irksomely unimportant tellings of a story that Mr. Taylor seems never to take seriously himself.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2011

At what a tearing pace he had driven up that road, through the yellow evening sunlight, the shadows flapping irksomely into his eyes as each wayside object rushed past between him and the west! 

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas