irksome

Example Sentences

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Soon we might be paying more for fewer good options, feeling wistful about the olden days of limitless streaming binges and sitting through irksome commercials.

From New York Times

For the past two years, many Chinese people have accepted the Covid restrictions as irksome but necessary.

From New York Times

If you were in a hurry, his loquaciousness could be irksome.

From Washington Post

But a certain practice has become irksome: There are some in the group who will ask who else has been invited, or who has accepted, before they will decide on their attendance.

From Washington Post

He once wrote that Black people were “ungovernable” and had “an inherent tendency to revert to savagery and to cast aside the shackles of civilization which are irksome to their physical nature.”

From New York Times