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Irksome

//ˈɜɹksəm// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition

    "He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily."

Adjective
  1. 1
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English irkesome, irksum, equivalent to irk + -some, or perhaps continuing (in altered form) from Old English weorcsum (“painful, hurtful”).

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