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comparative more irksome, superlative most irksome
Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition quotations examples
The young Spaniard had been in many situations of greater difficulty, but in none more irksome.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 235