irksomeness
Example Sentences
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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
Thus value in producible goods is ultimately explained by human desires over against a limitation of supply due either to the shortage of instrumental goods or to the irksomeness of effort, or to both.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
She could not refer to the demands of an eyeless mate for constant help in little things, and all the irksomeness of a home.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
