irksome

• Begin to feel this irksome, and am in low spirits. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• I determined not to speak till I was spoken to; but after a time the silence grew irksome, and the ticking of the clock so loud, that I ventured on a slight cough, merely to break it. —  Kate Coventry An Autobiography
• I was false, fickle, and deceitful, and was given to understand that Miss Somerville did not intend to quit her room until she was assured by her father that I was no longer a guest in the house Under these painful circumstances, our remaining any longer at the hall was both useless and irksome--a source of misery to all My father ordered his horses the next morning, and I was carried back to London, more dead than alive. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
• An early British commentator kindly remarked: "No doubt boys in their teens found the work not a little irksome, and it is also highly probable that under the early conditions of employment the adventurous and inquisitive spirits of which the average healthy boy of that age is possessed, were not always conducive to the best attention being given to the wants of the telephone subscribers So the boys were flung off the system--or at least, deprived of control of the switchboard. —  The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier
• Imprisonment was not irksome, and the retreat was pleasant enough after the strife of years. —  Heroes of Modern Europe

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