Irksome is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IRKSOME in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• tending to irk
• irritating; annoying
• irritating, annoying
• Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
• Weary; vexed; uneasy.
• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

Words related to IRKSOME

irksomely18 irksomeness17

Words that contain IRKSOME

irksomely18 irksomeness17 irksomenesses19

How to use IRKSOME in a sentence

• But as time went by, and week succeeded week, without a shot being fired to relieve the monotony of our lives, the work became irksome in the extreme.
• An intercourse with strangers is particularly irksome to an Englishman, and none appeared disposed, for a long time, to break the silence.
• I think the difficulties of a Prime Minister so great and the toil so irksome that the country ought to be full of gratitude to any man that will undertake it.
• Probably the weight of our collective sins upon his conscience is less irksome, now that he has a crime of his own to balance them.
• Regular duties and regular employments being imposed upon each, and their constant recurrence, so far from being irksome, soon became agreeable.
• So she managed to give Tommy as irksome a time as possible.
• Then, too, the novelty of housekeeping had passed away, and much that was once attractive in domestic life was now irksome.
• In that state of humiliation my daily task was not very hard and laborious, but rather singular and irksome.
• I must add, that I found the experiments to be extremely trying and irksome, and that it required much resolution to go through with them, using the scrupulous care they demanded.
• One other thing, even at the risk of an irksome repetition, I must insist upon, lest I seem to favour the credulous, superstitious view.
• It was as if she put aside for him something official, something sincerely maintained, necessary, but at times a little irksome.
• We lay all next day in the forest, maintaining an irksome silence, and continually on our guard against intrusion.
• As the weeks went by, the enforced idleness became irksome to Mr.
• All that forenoon, and quite late into the next day, I was left brooding and chafing at my misfortune, self-inflicted I will confess, but not the less irksome to bear.
• The renewal of these old discussions, my friend, would be equally useless and irksome.
• A wrist stiffened by an ancient accident, now more so by the effect of age, renders writing a slow and irksome operation with me.
• Exhausted by irksome toil, as much as by his life of gallantry, the ex-sub-director had well-nigh lost all his faculties by the time he came to live in the rue Saint-Dominique.
• Business life is full of irksome and difficult tasks but the aim in view carries people through them.
• And thereupon the company of the court made so great an outcry, that it was irksome to be in the same hall with them.
• Irksome and monotonous forms of exercise, while difficult to follow regularly, are usually of more benefit, as they are less likely to create an appetite.
• To me the confinement was frequently irksome and oppressive, especially when the days were bright with the beauty of sunshine.
• Weed, to show how irksome and responsible the withdrawal of troops from Sumter was.
• I think that La Bruyere deliberately accepted all that might prove irksome in the captivity to the House of Conde for the sole sake of his book.
• That these same hours were anything but irksome to Sperry would have been apparent to anyone who watched his use of them.
• To be left to pass the evening by herself was irksome to her at any time, and this evening it was more irksome than usual by reason of the excitements of the past hours.
• To work at the case, or the shoe-bench, seemed equally irksome, and they often lamented to each other the hard necessity which compelled them to it.
• The residence in country towns has always appeared to me very irksome.
• The task, I must tell you, was terribly irksome to a man of my sensibilities, endowed with an active mind and a vivid imagination.
• No one who writes so fast and so well can find it actually irksome.
• They carried their spirit of dedication to an excess that was almost irksome.
• Certainly nothing could be more irksome than the daily task of reading to poor Mrs.
• Jack Ballard, too, having at last found Newport irksome, promised to make up the house-party.
• Friends and social pleasures were hers at will when the lonely desert life grew irksome.

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