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The idea that planets have to clear their orbits is particularly irksome, he says.
THE DEFINITION OF PLANET IS STILL A SORE POINT – ESPECIALLY AMONG PLUTO FANSLISA GROSSMANAUGUST 24, 2021SCIENCE NEWSThat irksome window you can’t open because it has a ripped screen.
HOW TO TACKLE THE HOME MAINTENANCE TO-DO LIST YOU IGNORED DURING THE PANDEMICJURA KONCIUSJUNE 24, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHowever, there’s a difference between constructive complaining and irksome needling.
AM I HAVING SEX WITH A SERIAL KILLER?EUGENE ROBINSONMARCH 16, 2021OZYAs a male human resources leader, I find this statement irksome.
THE NEED FOR “WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN” SHOWS THE PROBLEM WITH THE “BOYS’ CLUB” IN INDIAN OFFICESVIKAS BANSALMARCH 8, 2021QUARTZThey had no power of attention even to a story, and the stillness was irksome to such wild colts.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEThey are as impertinent as those people who stop you only to bore you; but the former are perhaps less irksome.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREThere is a boundary even to human patience; and now, after many days, Max Bray began to find his position very irksome.
BY BIRTH A LADYGEORGE MANVILLE FENNTheir harness is not apparently irksome to them, and is not so heavy as one sees on the Portuguese oxen, for instance.
SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYL. HIGGIN AND EUGNE E. STREETIt then grew very irksome to him to bear his irons, and he rarely went out to walk.
MY TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENTSILVIO PELLICOIf you have a passion—a mania, I call it—for travelling, if repose is so irksome to you, why don't you travel?
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEWORDS RELATED TO IRKSOME
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.