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

Drills, contests, sports, hikes, and various entertainments had merged so evenly, one into the other, that tasks had lost their irksomeness and play had received an added zest.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.

It has been naturally inferred that Poe's object in this voluntary self-sacrifice was simply to free himself from the irksomeness of military duties which, on trial, he found so opposed to his taste and inclination.

From The Home Life of Poe by Weiss, Susan Archer