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
The irksomeness of her situation was greatly aggravated; but, at the same time, her spirit was sustained by the memory which she cherished in her heart of the scene under the hawthorns of the cliff.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
Besides, the time can be put in with less irksomeness at the theatre, or in company with a lot of congenial companions who avoid the stimulating effects of tea, coffee, and milk.
From Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen
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