How To Use Irksome In A Sentence
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He is the leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar's legions in 50 B.C.
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De Forest had only one seat to his buggy, and it was rather irksome to be conveying two ladies around all the time.
The Expressman and the Detective
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But if restrictions off the field of play are irksome it's nothing compared to the turmoil he's going through on the pitch these days.
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It is an irksome chore, which I would rather avoid.
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More than 1,700 passengers were surveyed, returning the five habits cruisers find most irksome.
The Sun
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But this was not the time for delay; I disencumbered the dogs of their dead companion, gave them a plentiful portion of food; and, after an hour's rest, which was absolutely necessary, and yet which was bitterly irksome to me,
Chapter 7
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Suspense is irksome, disappointment , bitter, all the world has, some time or other.
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But that\'s just what France\'s irksomely hyperkinetic president, Nicholas Sarkozy, was doing in this weekend\'s summer heat.
Eric Margolis: Italy's Lover-in-Chief
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It is irksome that some common sense preventative measures are not in place.
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But I must confess it is by far the most irksome I have ever tried.
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But leaving films was not a sacrifice, for the demands of stardom had become irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Accountability, and the political engagement it encourages, is always irksome to governments.
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It has always been irksome to publishers that they actually have to pay money to those weirdo deadbeats who wander in with manuscripts under their arms.
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Of course it is irksome to have to persuade one's fellow states, many of which act out of ignoble motives.
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I read You say each week and find the comments regarding wrong buses, road signs and times of football matches rather irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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The restriction on mobility is becoming increasingly irksome to young, highly qualified knowledge people.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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There are two areas where the knock-on effect of our Olympic coverage has proved irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the politically correct asides that punctuate the text - theology is outdated, Roman battle descriptions are offensive - are irksome.
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He had been sharp enough to perceive already that Mr Kennedy was an autocrat in his own house, and he knew Lady Laura well enough to be sure that such masterdom would be very irksome to her.
Phineas Finn
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Benatar had a rough-hewn sexuality; John was coquettish and irksomely cute.
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Full kit riders going too fast around blind corners, dodging the ever irksome rollerblader, children's trail-a-bikes.
Single Sided and Fully Enclosed: The Inaccessibility of "Bike Culture"
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But the practical reality may be more irksome and less fruitful.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a couple of pieces of miscasting, Aaron Alexander plays Tybalt in such an irksomely casual manner as to make the character wholly unremarkable.
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But the artists and musicians, poets and students and philosophers of the old town proved irksomely irrepressible.
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In fact, theories are already rife regarding the relationship between Obama's choices and the support he received from the pro-Israeli lobby in Washington during the campaign, despite his 'irksome' middle name and his unsettling 'ties' to world-renowned Palestinian intellectuals Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi.
Palestine Chronicle - Headlines
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It's profoundly disturbing and darkly comic - and the irksome chum who claims to be unshockable will probably never speak to you again, thus negating the need for a Christmas gift in 2003.
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At what a tearing pace he had driven up that road, through the yellow evening sunlight, the shadows flapping irksomely into his eyes as each wayside object rushed past between him and the west!
Wessex Tales
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Because otherwise social conventions and inequalities would be unbearably stifling and irksome, and terrible things and events would remain festering in our minds, unaired.
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There's probably no more irksome character than the humble hyphen, and though I'd love to develop a devil-may-care attitude toward it (got the bugger right that time, I reckon!), my newest coinage is hyphenhate, so you can guess just how I feel after 39713 of them and still counting.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Similarly irksome is the fawning critical reception to this wretched doorstop of a book.
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Their timing as they threaded looms and initiated stroke against the tide was irksomely flawless.
Shadowfane
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In the country districts the task of carrying out the provisions of the new Act was irksome enough; in the towns and cities it became an incubus.
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Beethoven claimed to Goethe that he had rapped Rudolph over the knuckles for keeping him waiting in an anteroom, and doubtless the composition lessons became increasingly irksome.
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This often works, but if you are writing in the active mood, the changes to the passive for the circumlocutions can be irksome.
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This must have been irksome for them, but Mrs Webster accepted it as her war work with good grace.
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It was particularly irksome during a serene hymn by the medieval composer Machaut, sung by three sopranos from Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices during the opening weekend of the inaugural festival.
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The feature on'hot' gardening trends is particularly irksome to people who know that gardening is about patience and longevity.
Times, Sunday Times
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This I find vaguely irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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The show sucks and its overdependence on gags is cheap and irksome.
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But that's just what France's irksomely hyperkinetic president, Nicholas Sarkozy, was doing in this weekend's summer heat.
Eric Margolis: Italy's Lover-in-Chief
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Wage restraint became increasingly irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the artists and musicians, poets and students and philosophers of the old town proved irksomely irrepressible.
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But the practical reality may be more irksome and less fruitful.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's little surprise she's sold 25m records worldwide: her songwriting is consistently brilliant and her voice almost irksomely angelic.
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It's particularly irksome when you are designing a house and have to explain yourself explicitly to your builders for the sake of clarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Equally irksome, however, is the trend for outpourings of cloying sentimentality that deface the personal columns at this time of year.
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One of the most irksome things that can happen to a mobile phone user is a flat battery, and the charging devices are designed to solve the problem.
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Most of the conspirators were young officers, for whom promotion was irksomely slow and who had been reading German Romantic writers to ease their boredom.
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Boston, that they entered the inland sea now called Long Island Sound, and without one perilous adventure to give a zest to their irksome voyage.
A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six
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He found the slowness of criminal trials particularly irksome and his attempts to speed them up did not find favour with the Bar.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is so irksomely soundtracked; fleeting glimpses of billions of songs, designed to be familiar to the viewers who know them and inspire emotion in those who don't, but in verse-long, rather than song-long chunks.
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Despite its enduring popularity, he has always refused to reminisce about The Likely Lads and says he finds the continuing public fascination with the series 'irksome'.
Home | Mail Online
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A 1995 bilateral pact allows airlines in Canada and the USA to offer point-to-point service between the two, eliminating some irksome changes.
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The dermatologists and plastic surgeons I interviewed noted that creases bestowing an angry or saturnine look (usually forehead furrows) on their bearers are particularly irksome.
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But leaving films was not a sacrifice, for the demands of stardom had become irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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This irksomely catchy faux folk song, together with Fess Parker's earnest portrayal of the frontier hero for Disney, cemented an image of Daniel Boone in the minds of two or three generations of Americans.
At Home in Paradise
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He found the slowness of criminal trials particularly irksome and his attempts to speed them up did not find favour with the Bar.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Kelsch sees "irksome" open-door retailers, she goes inside and tells owners and consumers about the wasted energy.
Energy-conscious riled by stores that leave doors open and A/C on
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One only attempt seemed in her power for an honourable asylum, and that was more irksomely painful to her than seeking shelter in the meanest retreat: it was applying to Mr Delvile senior.
Cecilia
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Supposed to be derived from the Arabic kabala, the irksome tax on salt, from which few provinces in France were altogether free, swept away in 1790.
Travels through France and Italy
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This has not only slowed down the whole process of integration but has also proved to be irksome to stakeholders in commerce.
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Managements may protest in all sincerity that that's all there is, or that this or that new and more irksome work practice is essential.
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At times, this insistence on depicting the background becomes a bit irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Similarly irksome is the fawning critical reception to this wretched doorstop of a book.
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Last night, in a room full of poets, I found their endless raw emotionalism and soul-searching really irksome.
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Avey and Wojcicki played up the recreational aspects of 23andMe testing—broccoli taste, fast twitch muscles, and earwax consistency—because they appealed to so many people, but they found the tag irksome.
The $1,000 Genome
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At times, this insistence on depicting the background becomes a bit irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's almost irksomely cute, first of all, with a raspy little voice and a Bettie Page hairdo.
Una LaMarche: Meet The Project Runway Season 8 Contestants
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It was irksome to realize that I could not connect my laptop to the projector, thus making useless the multi-page powerpoint I developed for my portion, but then again, talking extempore is never a problem for me.
Archive 2004-07-01
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At least the new films have produced some satisfyingly irksome tagline puns.
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This irksome inmate has been driving the nation insane with her contrived ‘street savvy’ conversational technique.
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He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own.
Times, Sunday Times
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One tic of blogs, the MSM and commenters I find kind of irksome is the habit of thinking that "public statements" = "action" and "action" = "public statements.
Obama: Disappointed And Frustrated Over Collapse Of Auto-Bailout
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He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's the mother I find irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jacquelyn nicknamed him Spike, in recognition of his petulant, fiery nature, which his four younger siblings apparently found considerably irksome.
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Do I find it irksome?
Times, Sunday Times
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Wage restraint became increasingly irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for the Union's finances, both England and Scotland would be better off if there were fewer subventions i.e. "equalization" - MC, since grants are as debilitating to their recipient as they are irksome to their contributor...
Daimnation!: The Austro-Hungarian solution for the UK?
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This has the effect of reducing the slightly irksome similarity - in mood, key, pace, instrumentation - of many of the songs on offer.
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But this was not the time for delay; I disencumbered the dogs of their dead companion, gave them a plentiful portion of food; and, after an hour's rest, which was absolutely necessary, and yet which was bitterly irksome to me, I continued my route.
Chapter 24
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Do I find it irksome?
Times, Sunday Times
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The restriction on mobility is becoming increasingly irksome to young, highly qualified knowledge people.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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It has always been irksome to publishers that they actually have to pay money to those weirdo deadbeats who wander in with manuscripts under their arms.
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Hand-weed with a trowel tip or soil knife, making sure to get the roots, which are especially irksome in dry soil.
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In conclusion I have to say it is quite tiresome and irksome to respond to some ancient email which has been dredged up and thrown back at me.
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This rankled with me two years ago and I still find it very irksome today.
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The word "issue" -- the Darfur issue, the Iraq issue, the homelessness issue -- is kind of irksome, but it hints at a vital fact: As Americans of a certain economic status and social class, our "issues" are other people's lives.
Brian Palmer: We Can Help Burma
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Summer had arrived and through the open door the sound of a tin whistle-playing busker/beggar grew irksome.
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De Forest had only one seat to his buggy, and it was rather irksome to be conveying two ladies around all the time.
The Expressman and the Detective
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It's the mother I find irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than 1,700 passengers were surveyed, returning the five habits cruisers find most irksome.
The Sun
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‘Irksome, loopily affectionate, on tenterhooks, fidgety’… ran Emily's immediate assessment of her Husband's ‘welcome-back-to-the-big-city’ mood.
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There is no mind-jarring pop music to shred your thoughts and, more importantly, no irksome rash of timeshare touts badgering you to buy a dream in the sun.
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The carrying of burdens and the irksome work of excavating the quarries was assigned to the remnant of the Canaanites (1Ki 9: 20; 2Ch 8: 7-9) and war prisoners made by David -- amounting to 153,600.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The feature on'hot' gardening trends is particularly irksome to people who know that gardening is about patience and longevity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reflecting on his career as a judge, Hammond conceded that various "discourtesies" that come a judge's way have been irksome.
StAugustine.com
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There are two areas where the knock-on effect of our Olympic coverage has proved irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Benatar had a rough-hewn sexuality; John was coquettish and irksomely cute.
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I find England irksomely restful and law-abiding after the Continent, but
The Yeoman Adventurer
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This I find vaguely irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Second, the 'irksome' five-star in the corner of the regional flag is soon to be a thing of the past.
American Chronicle
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‘That's so kind of you, sweetheart,’ he takes the tub with an irritatingly irksome smile on his face.
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The hectic schedule can be irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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His irksome bosses at headquarters don't comprehend the risk but I guess those in faraway command are the same all over the universe.
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Why subject yourself to an irksome book when so many sublime ones are available?
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Irksome burdens lighten and niggling worries vanish, when friends rally round to help us see life in its true perspective.
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It is this double-think and inconsistency that is so irksome to those with common-sense.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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This was particularly irksome because many of my companions were in possession of the all-powerful “Infinity” laminates, meaning that they are rather in charge of, you know, running the festival.
Bonnaroo 08 Saturday: Videotaping Pearl Jam, golf cart rides, and waiting for Kanye | EW.com
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At a personal level, the defection of Quentin Davies to Labour on Tuesday was a Conservative gain: Mr Davies has long been a troublesome and tiresome Tory, and his new Labour handlers will find him irksomely high maintenance.
Enter the clunking fist
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Mr. Bond [Bondfield], and the returns of civility on my part could only be communicated [to] me through the same Channel, a kind of conviviality so tdious and irksome, that I had much rather have remained in silent Observation and Reflection.
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778
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One of the most irksome things that can happen to a mobile phone user is a flat battery, and the charging devices are designed to solve the problem.
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A couple of years hence, it can make a significant difference between having some fault cured for free or at irksome expense.
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The job was badly paid and he found the attentions of Washington high society irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reasons not to The irksome programming requires technical expertise.
Times, Sunday Times
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As irksome as they found RFE's balloon operations, the radio broadcasts nettled communist officials even more.
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Clearly, this is an irksome fact to someone whose ambitions extend beyond maximising profit.
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Some Singaporeans chimed in, asking 'how can Orchard Road be a world-class shopping haven and rival other major cities such as Tokyo when it is a free-for-all zone for anyone to hawk their stuff?', perhaps in reference to the "particularly irksome", "cacophonous" strains of buskers trying to make a living amidst the noise of nearby roadshows.
The Online Citizen
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Dickson's vocals are either irksomely whiny or in a growl better suited to a fifth-wave jam band than these tight pop melodies.
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The hectic schedule can be irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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I read You say each week and find the comments regarding wrong buses, road signs and times of football matches rather irksome.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's particularly irksome when you are designing a house and have to explain yourself explicitly to your builders for the sake of clarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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That their plunge might stimulate Methuen to burn his boots and brave the turgid waters of the Modder, was the fervent wish of Kimberley at the end of fourteen weeks of irksome, emaciating duress.
The Siege of Kimberley
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Antitrust suits as a means of enforcing the law, Roosevelt declared, were "irksome" and prolonged affairs.
LewRockwell.com
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what an irksome task the writing of long letters is