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irksome

[urk-suhm]

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adjective

annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome: irksome restrictions.

Obsolete. causing weariness or disgust.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see irk, -some¹

Related forms

irk·some·ly, adverb

irk·some·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

There are only a few irksome group dynamics that cannot be easily escaped.

Yet traders are intelligent and inventive, and quickly find ways to evade many of the more irksome controls placed on them.

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There are only a few irksome group dynamics that cannot be easily escaped.

Yet traders are intelligent and inventive, and quickly find ways to evade many of the more irksome controls placed on them.

Irksome screen lag when zipping through menus iTunes won't transcode between video formats.

First pancakes are irksome because they are recurring flops.

As irksome as the sale itself was the manner of its disclosure.

PureMotion technology helps reduce judder, but the need to manually tweak it depending on what you're watching can be irksome.

Irksome physicists pointed out that the process the chemists described violated several laws of nature.

After that, a dose of euro-zone discipline might not seem too irksome.

Similarly, the use of undefined pronouns is irksome when they refer to an earlier message.

With those new drains loomed the probability of irksome seepage.

The more irksome the rule, the greater the incentive to bribe officials not to enforce it.

These newest players were as irksome as the others, and plainly naïve.

For their sanity, for their confidence and for halting an irksome losing streak.

Even if children are irksome now, they lend meaning to life in the long term.

But it wasn't investment bankers, no matter how irksome their behavior, who caused newspapers' woes.

Some businesses in the service sector will also be freed from irksome non-tariff barriers.

Gold the actor needed to be more eccentrically lovable and less irksome.

The irksome burden of commuting might be lessened considerably.

But a more irksome matter is the frequency of breakdown and the speed of repair.

Historically, great thinkers have offered suggestions for dealing with irksome people.

It is irksome that diligence doesn't always guarantee success.

Niyazov's schizophrenic decision-making is irksome to neighbors in urgent need of stable, predictable and dependable allies.

And that would have been less irksome if it had been more delicious.

What is irksome is the relentless didacticism of the artworks and the curatorial commentary.

It was a low-rent affect that was especially irksome to the high-society murderers he outwitted in episode after episode.

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irksome (ˈɜːksəm)

—*adj*
	causing vexation, annoyance, or boredom; troublesome or tedious

'irksomely

—*adv*

'irksomeness

—n

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