Irksome

He has an irksome personality.

But when once she had settled in her mind that life was irksome she had no patience with her condition, and longed to do something of real interest and to pass her days in ways hitherto undreamed of by forest nymphs.

Jane was irksome.

Tom was irksome.

That's an irksome thing.

Being treated as a minor is irksome.

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

The young Spaniard had been in many situations of greater difficulty, but in none more irksome.

But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.

Like the irksome climate-change satire Don’t Look Up, directed by Succession executive producer Adam McKay, the exaggerated hijinks of Mountainhead reveal a deep self-assurance of its politics that border on smug.