irksome

He said he would feel irksome once seeing moth.

He began to feel it irksome and awkward, but still he sat on because he could not get up and go.

The company has also come in for ethical criticism, which must be particularly irksome to its high-minded founders.

Mr. Collins was sure neither sensible nor agreeable ; his society was irksome , and his attachment to her must be imaginary .

Slyme's presence in the house had not proved so irksome as Easton and Ruth had dreaded it would be.

Eventually he came to think of the detective as an irksome burden: "He keeps me from higher things, " he wrote.

This was, certainly, one of the most irksome grimaces that he had ever executed for the good pleasure of the king.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, for me it is not irksome, but for you it is safe.

In France it is irksome to see your taxes paying healthy people to retire at 60 when schools and hospitals need the money more.

In no other city have I seen street cleaners using utensils the size of toothbrushes to get those irksome marks off the pavement.

As irksome as the sale itself was the manner of its disclosure.

suspense is irksome , disappointment , bitter , all the world has , some time or other.

I find it really irksome when people jump in front of me in a line.

Underlined is: "Each and every irksome Jew is a serious affront to the authenticity and veracity of our German identity. "

As irksome as potential dilution is, shareholders may be equally annoyed at the likely reason for the delay.

It was too irksome to lie up there, harassing my brain with a hundred idle misgivings.

For a free software user, one of the most irksome aspects of Windows XP or Vista is that you are constantly being nagged by pop-ups.

That's how long it took me to adjust to lights, and phones, and all the other irksome details that go along with being awake and functional.

England once turned to Protestantism because Henry VIII found the Catholic church's rules on matrimony irksome.

it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.

Many an irksome noise, go a long way off, is heard as music, a proud, sweet satire on the meanness of our lives.

There is certainly much work which is exceedingly irksome, and an excess of work is always very painful.

It would also lessen Europe's irksome dependence on Russian gas.

More irksome still is that profligate America is able to borrow on better terms.

Yet traders are intelligent and inventive, and quickly find ways to evade many of the more irksome controls placed on them.

they will take the clumsy, irksome rigidity, solemnity, and unnaturalness out of your practice and bring you more and more focus and ease.

After five minutes of irksome and constrained conversation, they heard the sound of slippered feet approaching rapidly.

Small disagreements can be irksome and frustrating; if they simmer and grow, they can poison your last precious months and years together.

The Schaumweinsteuer belongs to Germany's arsenal of irksome "bagatelle taxes" , many of which are holdovers from earlier eras.

It can be very irksome.

After that, a dose of euro-zone discipline might not seem too irksome.

The boss has given me an irksome task.

Compiling computer program is an irksome task to one who is not apt at logical thinking.

The air in China may be gritty and the censorship irksome.

It is Very difficult to shake them of, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.

It is an irksome task.

and who am i? the one adorable, or irksome?

There is certainly much work which is exceedingly irksome.

What irksome issues did you have to get rid of, and how did you do it?

I am fed up with the irksome restrictions.

The air in China may be gritty and the censorship irksome. Conference calls with head offices in America at 4am are tedious.

Irksome describes what is demanding of time and effort and yet is dull and often unrewarding:

This is an irksome day, it is very hot, I stay at home, needn't go to school.

what an irksome task the writing of long letters is- Edmund Burke;

It is irksome to do the same work every day for ten years .