(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.
Troublesome
Definition:
(a.) Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(2) Both drugs were relatively well tolerated, but trimipramine had a sedative effect which proved troublesome in some patients.
(3) Initial experience with the use of bromocriptine in 24 patients with troublesome micturition symptoms associated with an unstable bladder is described.
(4) Patients had troublesome symptoms uncontrolled by high doses of inhaled corticosteroids (mean 1450 micrograms).
(5) The EU report said that the MIT, Turkey’s intelligence service, had begun compiling lists of “troublesome individuals” years ago.
(6) She does talk openly and movingly about Barbara, though, whose rebelliousness became so troublesome for her parents that she was placed in various institutions during her teens.
(7) To try to determine the relative contributions of sensory and motor neuropathy in this troublesome complication, anorectal function was examined in 10 male diabetic patients with early faecal incontinence (mucus leakage or faecal staining without the need to wear a pad), 10 asymptomatic male diabetic patients, and 10 normal control subjects.
(8) The diabetics complained more often of fear and anxiety about future, fluctuations in mood and were finding their daily life more troublesome.
(9) Troublesome unwanted effects occurred in six patients.
(10) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
(11) Since then, researchers have studied the problem of troublesome behavior in demented patients and the burden that this creates for relatives nursing them.
(12) Debate over the current sources of financing reveals several troublesome issues: the presence of residents allegedly decreases the productivity of professionals and leads to overusage of ancillary services, proposed methods to pay for faculty salaries and services have created confusion and concern, and the financing of ambulatory-care training has been insufficient and poorly coordinated.
(13) RBS starts charging financial customers to park their cash Read more The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.
(14) Conversely, having no credit history can be just as troublesome as having a poor rating: without a history of spending and repayments, a bank may be less willing to loan you money.
(15) His subcorneal pustular dermatosis subsequently flared and was troublesome for 2 years until he was commenced on PUVA, with excellent response.
(16) Nevertheless their insertion is sometime troublesome and a superficial knowledge of the technical problems may lead to complete and disappointing failures.
(17) For instance; hesitant to go to a hot spring, or on a trip with friends (76%), hesitant to go to a clinic or a hospital for physical check-ups and common illness (74%), troublesome to wear special underwear (69%), inconvenient because ordinary clothes cannot be worn (56%), distressed when viewing own body (52%), unable to dress in thin clothes in hot summer season (50%), imbalance of the breasts (49%), inconvenient to participate in sports (47%).
(18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
(19) Cardiovascular instability and eradication of analgesia have been troublesome, especially with the use of naloxone.
(20) The radical mastoid cavity can be troublesome and odoriferous, may require frequent visits to an otologist, and may interfere with swimming and showering.