irksome
adjective
annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome.
irksomeness
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a word derived from
irksome.
Example Sentences
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Still, for all the irksomeness of studio notes, they can sometimes provide a check on more provocative ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2017
But honesty alone does not make a good or complex memoir, and this book seems overly proud of the discordant noise it makes, with the way it rubs our noses in West’s irksomeness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2011
“If he would be so good as to read to them, it would be a kindness indeed! It would amuse away the difficulties of her part, and lessen the irksomeness of Miss Smith’s.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
These readings often occupied many consecutive hours, extending at times far into the night; and they relieved Prescott's seclusion of much of its irksomeness, while they stored his mind with interesting topics of thought.
From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck
To add to the irksomeness of life at sea, there was little cordiality amongst the officers, who lived apart as much as their narrow quarters would allow.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
