(a.) Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked point blank if Mueller should recuse himself from the Russia investigation, Trump said: “Well, he’s very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome.
(2) Requirements for intranasal douching with saline have varied; however, we have had no problems with bothersome crusting following b.i.d.
(3) The most bothersome feature of Bannon’s talk is the fact that a Catholic group at the Vatican responded to it with enthusiasm.
(4) Headache was the only bothersome side-effect reported.
(5) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(6) Of these 22, 13 (57%) found the premonitory urges more bothersome than the tics themselves, and 12 (55%) thought the premonitory urges enhanced their ability to suppress tics.
(7) Of all patients 11% experienced headache or other bothersome symptoms for more than three days following myelography.
(8) Forty-one patients rates the relative bothersomeness of symptoms of schizophrenia and side effects of neuroleptics.
(9) A comparison of nicergoline versus placebo in the frequencies of changes in each item of the SCAG showed also a significant difference at 6 months, the percent of patients displaying an improvement by at least 2 points ranging from 13.5 (bothersome) to 30.2 (disorientation) in nicergoline group, against 4.1 (self-care) to 14.3 (fatigue) in placebo group.
(10) Three quarters of the men had used the condom and found it bothersome.
(11) The depressed mothers perceived their infants as more difficult to care for and more bothersome than did the nondepressed mothers, but did not attribute these difficulties to the temperament of their infants.
(12) In every case, the bothersome side effects of the medication, which led to use of the alternative method of administration, specially the gastro-intestinal problems, subsided.
(13) The last and most bothersome category, distinguished by its symptoms of pruritus and discharge, includes the most common types of vulvovaginitis.
(14) Proximal gastric resection incurs bothersome sequelae and should, therefore, be avoided.
(15) While all of them reported noisy environments to be bothersome, the fulltime users did not turn off their stimulators in noise.
(16) The impact of this hospitalization on our family is presented, including: 1) normal but bothersome behavioral changes in the patient and his sibling; 2) the effects of excessive parental stress; 3) the development of parental coping strategies; and 4) stresses and coping strategies specific to a physician-father.
(17) Both drugs were effective in managing target behaviors, which included hostility, uncooperativeness, bothersomeness, emotional lability, and irritability.
(18) Side effects associated with larger doses of guanethidine employed in severe hypertension were absent or only slightly bothersome.
(19) Whereas relief of bothersome symptoms of ventricular dysrhythmias may improve the patient's return to a more active role in society, one must be aware, at the same time, that these antidysrhythmics have adverse effects of their own that may significantly limit their effectiveness.
(20) Thirteen percent of the patients had bothersome pain either during or after the biopsy.
Irksome
Definition:
(a.) Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
(a.) Weary; vexed; uneasy.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Well, it is slightly irksome when people try to compare the two.
(2) Peter Barlow's son, Our Simon, is particularly irksome, and Faye, who has been used to address the issue of bullying, has it coming.
(3) In Manhattan, she is cast as a pretentious, irksome snob of a journalist.
(4) After a prolonged chuckle, Russell drops his impersonation of Groundhog Day's irksome insurance salesman, a minor but intensely memorable character, and explains excitedly that he recently met Andie MacDowell, one of the film's stars.
(5) As the Press Association reports, he told a committee that said sticking to international rules could be "irksome" at times.
(6) Then, in 2010, he was cast in Friday Night Dinner, getting the part of irksome estate agent Jonny, he thinks, because "I was the most annoying person they could find."
(7) The suggestion that Bastille's fans somehow aren't proper music fans is, understandably, particularly irksome.
(8) The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words "Never Forget" become irksome eventually.
(9) The pathophysiology of this frequent and irksome complication is still poorly understood.
(10) They owe me a medal for trying to save the Russian environment," he said, "The amnesty is just a way for the authorities to save face but we are still described as violent criminals that the Duma, in its magnanimity, is willing to pardon, which is really irksome."
(11) In a letter to the prime minister, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said that tighter controls on British newspapers would send the wrong message to repressive regimes that want to "rein in irksome reporters".
(12) It may also say something about modern debate that the most teeth-grinding aspect of Osborne's move barely attracted comment – but the spectacle of an alumnus of St Paul's School worth an estimated £4m kicking the poor in order to preserve his political skin is irksome, to say the least.
(13) It’s not like Thailand today.” Harking back to an idealised past, when irksome democracy was containable and everyone knew their place, is one of the festival’s aims.
(14) When the increasingly irksome backbench rebel Barry Sheerman put in a good 10 minutes on the BBC News Channel, did he not realise the absurdity of his failure to mention a single substantial item of policy?
(15) For Campbell, the justification of the cost is almost as irksome as the outlay itself.
(16) Assessment of completeness of vagotomy has always been an irksome and time-consuming affair.
(17) There is a spread sheet that will tell you what everyone should be doing for every hour over Christmas, from who is doing the driving, through seating plans, to thank-you letters (you have to write down who the last present was from before you are allowed to open the next one – very irksome for The Twins).
(18) This shunts the cost from one government department to another, with the irksome side-effect that the cost is much greater.
(19) Our cause was noble, he submits: we were fighting for European freedom against irksomely expansionist Teutonic tyranny.
(20) Almost as irksome has been a £440,000 cash allowance – separate from Bailey's £1.1m salary and potential £2.2m bonus – plus an additional one-off performance related award of £7.6m worth of shares when he took over as chief executive in May.