(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.
Tiresome
Definition:
(a.) Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(2) Why Independence Day: Resurgence's gay couple are denied a close encounter Read more While LGBT characters have maintained some form of visibility within independent cinema, they have been parodied, stereotyped and used for tiresome gay-panic humour in their rare appearances in studio films.
(3) Lord Salisbury, for example, wrote: "I must confess that I am not very happy that you should use part of what was very much an off-the-record conversation..." but then apologised in a handwritten note, "Please forgive me for being so tiresome about it."
(4) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
(5) Even at Newcastle last season, tiresome lines about umbrellas were all too common and it is hardly a wild assumption to suggest McClaren will be shadowed by his failings at Wembley no matter where he ends up in the future.
(6) This method can be used with all kinds of ligand but it is particularly useful for those ligands having the tiresome tendency to adhere to the cells non-specifically or to polymerize by themselves.
(7) The nine-channel pipetting reduced the time necessary for pipetting to about one third as compared to the corresponding one channel pipetting, and made the pipetting less tiresome.
(8) But on this day of days not even a tiresome intervention from John Bercow could draw a frown from Nero's brow.
(9) Rather than being offered some much-needed diversity, we’ve been given a stale reminder of the tiresome heteronormativity that continues to stifle change within blockbusters.
(10) Then there’s the even more tiresome question of why these racist men support Chelsea even though it has so many black players.
(11) Still, up for anything food related, I find myself in a central London flat (it’s central London only; of course it is) signing up for Supper in anticipation of some posh nosh without the need for all that tiresome restaurant-going.
(12) And yes, the “artfully distressed” or “industrial” interiors of 99.9% of new restaurants and bars these days is becoming a bit tiresome.
(13) Trenberth said that the website has made it easier to respond to scientific inaccuracies, but that the constant attacks on his and his colleagues' work by skeptic groups "is tiresome."
(14) The traditional tiresome English lionheart schtick does not work in the modern game.
(15) Played here by Anthony Hopkins , in facial prosthesis and fake belly, and the neither tiny nor particularly birdlike Helen Mirren, Hitch and Alma appear as an indissoluble partnership in art and life, suddenly threatened by pressures from without (no budget) but more from within, particularly by Alfred's tendency, now tiresome to the red-haired Alma, to become obsessed with his leading blondes.
(16) According to the author's data, forced insomnia precedes that psychosis in all the cases; it lasts from 2 to 5 days, being consequent on a tiresome journey.
(17) The idea of the flame and its journey is to imbue the branded and, I have to say, slightly tiresome modern Olympiad with the spirit of the games that were first held in 776BC in honour of Zeus.
(18) It gets tiresome having to do the same thing over and over.
(19) The extras have been feigning Costa Del Lols for hours, and it's getting tiresome.
(20) Thus was born the so-called Curse of the Bambino, maybe the most tiresome narrative in the history of American sports.