irksom

But as irksom as this is, it isn't really the same as positioning oneself ideologically by arguing that the left is wrong on policy substance, as Bill Clinton did.

Is Obama triangulating? Naah, not really. Greg Sargent 2010

But as irksom as this is, it isn't really the same as positioning oneself ideologically by arguing that the left is wrong on policy substance, as Bill Clinton did.

Is Obama triangulating? Naah, not really. Greg Sargent 2010

These were his dayly documents to his young wife, wherewith (poore soule) she became so tyred, as nothing could be more irksom to her, and very careful he was, lest any other should teach her what belonged to working daies, because he would have her know none but holy daies.

The Decameron 2004

And this manner of diligence makes no labour irksom, no morning too early, nor no evening too late for them.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

_Love_, to his Pleasure, not thinking it irksom and tedious, to his

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

[Footnote 2: [so irksom as]] [Footnote 3: say] [Footnote 4: Aristotle, _Poetics_, III.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700