irksomeness
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
Besides, the time can be put in with less irksomeness at the theatre, or in company with a lot of congenial companions who avoid the stimulating effects of tea, coffee, and milk.
From Methods of Authors by Erichsen, Hugo
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 Peck, Harry Thurston
