(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.
Repetition
Definition:
(n.) The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
(n.) Recital from memory; rehearsal.
(n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
(n.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
(n.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(2) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(3) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(4) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.
(5) Two hours after the administration, the combinations of ethanol plus diazepam and ethanol plus meclophenoxate impaired significantly the number of necessary repetitions.
(6) This effect of adrenalectomy on MNE excitability was further demonstrated by recording directly the neostigmine-induced repetitive neural discharges responsible for the muscle fasciculations.
(7) The fifth plasmid contains sequences which are repeated in the yeast genome, but it is not known whether any or all of the ribosomal protein gene on this clone contains repetitive DNA.
(8) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(9) As the frequency of the stimulus bursts was progressively changed, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal pacemaker cells became synchronized with the repetitive bursts of stimuli over a certain range of burst frequencies.
(10) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(11) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
(12) Analytic therapy aims at converting transference as repetition of behaviour into recollection.
(13) Effects were monitored electrophysiologically by repetitive nerve stimulation and by standardized clinical testing.
(14) Variations in image orientation, repetition time (TR), and flip angle were evaluated to determine their effects on flow-related enhancement.
(15) Instead, a repetitive, stepwise dissolution pattern was observed.
(16) Studies in cattle assessing changes in number and size of antral follicles, concentrations of estradiol, androgens and progesterone in serum and follicular fluid, and numbers of gonadotropin receptors per follicle during repetitive estrous cycles and postpartum anestrus are reviewed.
(17) This decrease was associated with a release of lactate and inorganic phosphate during the repetitive periods of reperfusion.
(18) His bundle recordings and premature atrial stimulation from coronary sinus, mid-right atrium and high-right atrium were performed in a patient with repetitive supraventricular tachycardias.
(19) The torques, although not large enough to dislodge the socket immediately, are repetitive and so may contribute to loosening.
(20) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.