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
On the man’s side it means the irksomeness of the marriage yoke without any of its satisfactions and comforts.
From Modern marriage and how to bear it by Braby, Maud Churton
He conversed with the prisoner in the same terms of friendly familiarity that he did with Shaw, and neglected no attention that might in any degree relieve the irksomeness of St. Jermyn's necessary thraldom.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
