irksomeness

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Still, for all the irksomeness of studio notes, they can sometimes provide a check on more provocative ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2017

But honesty alone does not make a good or complex memoir, and this book seems overly proud of the discordant noise it makes, with the way it rubs our noses in West’s irksomeness.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2011

“If he would be so good as to read to them, it would be a kindness indeed! It would amuse away the difficulties of her part, and lessen the irksomeness of Miss Smith’s.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

No doubt the irksomeness of her present situation, the allurements of luxury and ease which Ormond had to bestow, and the revival of her ancient independence and security, had some share in dictating her assent.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

To add to the irksomeness of life at sea, there was little cordiality amongst the officers, who lived apart as much as their narrow quarters would allow.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various