irksomeness

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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

Drills, contests, sports, hikes, and various entertainments had merged so evenly, one into the other, that tasks had lost their irksomeness and play had received an added zest.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.

This spirit of generosity may be seen in the friendships of boys, which are more entire and unselfish than those by which men seek to mitigate the irksomeness of life.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard