It was a pleasure to meet you Stella, I am so sorry for whatever I said to irk you the wrong way.
Source: tatoeba (440969)
Irk
//ɜːk//
Synonyms for "irk" (144 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (43)
Related words (72)
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Translations
30 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- безпокоя verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- досаждам verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- смущавам verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Cornish
1 entries- veksya verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Czech
3 entries- dopalovat verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- rozčilovat verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- štvát verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Finnish
1 entries- ärsyttää verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
French
2 entries- agacer verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- irriter verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
German
1 entries- ärgern verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Hungarian
1 entries- bosszant verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Italian
3 entries- infastidire verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- irritare verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- seccare verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Latin
2 entries- piget verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- taedet verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Māori
4 entries- hakirara verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- rangirangi verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- whakahōhā verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- whakakūrakuraku verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Norwegian
2 entries- irritere verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- plage verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Polish
1 entries- drażnić verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Portuguese
1 entries- aborrecer verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Russian
1 entries- раздража́ть verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Spanish
3 entries- fastidiar verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- irritar verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
- molestar verb (to irritate; annoy; bother)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.
Source: wiktionary
Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth?
Source: wiktionary
The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science.
Source: wiktionary
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