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View definitions for irksome

irksome

adjective as in annoying

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Her borderline apologetic view is, frankly, a bit irksome, though not wholly unexpected based on Transmormon.

But there is actually something more irksome than exploiting cancer for profits.

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.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to irksome, such as: aggravating, bothersome, irritating, tedious, troublesome, and troubling.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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