irksome

Example Sentences

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Even critics like Professor Sridhar said that the messages yielded useful, if irksome, details.

From New York Times

But clever authors are still preferable to preternaturally unrealistically clever children or talking animals, who are deeply irksome in novels — along with disabled characters who exist only to provide treacly inspiration.

From Washington Post

Edmund White, the American novelist who lived in Paris for 15 years and was a frequent visitor to the Louvre, said he hoped the new policy would keep irksome icon-worshippers away.

From New York Times

This is particularly irksome as the complexities of being a parent are themes that Cameron has explored brilliantly in the past – motherhood in "Aliens" and fatherhood in "Terminator 2."

From Salon

It wasn’t even irksome that “Sweet Caroline,” having swept the Earth, ended matters.

From Washington Post