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Irksome in a sentence
Irksome meaning
Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition
Using Irksome
- The main meaning on this page is: Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition
- Useful related words include: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum.
- In the example corpus, irksome often appears in combinations such as: irksome and, an irksome, particularly irksome.
Context around Irksome
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Irksome
- In this selection, "irksome" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, particularly, incredibly, excessively, cases, college and given stand out and add context to how "irksome" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as an irksome inconvenience that and be incredibly irksome so all. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "irksome" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with irksome
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He confessed that not having Furuhashi in the preceding weeks had been irksome. (13 words)
It's irksome while you're doing it, and equally disagreeable as you think about it later. (17 words)
School was made particularly irksome by a number of his fellow pupils, the overgrown sons of beefy centurions. (18 words)
It’s the front-loaded two-year wage freeze that’s most irksome to Unifor right now — a suspicious move that seems to have an awful lot to do with a government trying to claim a balanced 2019-20 budget before it goes into next year’s provincial election. (49 words)
The average journey will now cost 2.7 per cent more than last year, a rise passengers in Yorkshire will almost certainly find irksome given the delays, cancellations and overcrowding that many have endured in the past 12 months. (39 words)
It is the linking of the home schooling provision to Eagan’s report, and a fear that DCF might become involved with their families, that was particularly irksome for parents. (30 words)
Example sentences (13)
He confessed that not having Furuhashi in the preceding weeks had been irksome.
My week was improving, as the cloud lifted, the prospect of an evening on my bike became more real and the prognosis of my irksome cases improved.
Spending your paycheck on mundane household items can be incredibly irksome, so, all the more reason to make the most of this discount.
According to the statement, “The repeated fallacy that His Excellency, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa hobnobs with Late Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s sworn enemies is becoming excessively irksome and prattle.
Not only did Professor Weil fuel my fortunate discovery of poetics, but he is a sort of father figure to me in the midst of an irksome college scene.
It's irksome while you're doing it, and equally disagreeable as you think about it later.
The average journey will now cost 2.7 per cent more than last year, a rise passengers in Yorkshire will almost certainly find irksome given the delays, cancellations and overcrowding that many have endured in the past 12 months.
When protests are looked at as an irksome inconvenience that needs to be stopped, this silences the voice of protesters and ignores their message.
It is the linking of the home schooling provision to Eagan’s report, and a fear that DCF might become involved with their families, that was particularly irksome for parents.
It’s the front-loaded two-year wage freeze that’s most irksome to Unifor right now — a suspicious move that seems to have an awful lot to do with a government trying to claim a balanced 2019-20 budget before it goes into next year’s provincial election.
It was no doubt very irksome for a man of Tasso's pleasure-loving, restless and self-conscious spirit to be kept for more than seven years in confinement.
Jahangir's most irksome foe was the Rana of Mewar, Amar Singh, who finally capitulated in 1613 to Khurram's forces.
School was made particularly irksome by a number of his fellow pupils, the overgrown sons of beefy centurions.
Common combinations with irksome
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- irksome and 2×
- an irksome 2×
- particularly irksome 2×
- irksome for 2×
- most irksome 2×