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

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

The irksomeness of life had come upon her later, when the sting of her son's wickedness began to die away.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend