Adjective : irksome restrictions. From Dictionary.com.
She's almost irksomely cute, first of all, with a raspy little voice and a Bettie Page hairdo. From Wordnik.com. [Una LaMarche: Meet The Project Runway Season 8 Contestants] Reference
Their timing as they threaded looms and initiated stroke against the tide was irksomely flawless. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
But that's just what France's irksomely hyperkinetic president, Nicholas Sarkozy, was doing in this weekend's summer heat. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: Italy's Lover-in-Chief] Reference
But that\'s just what France\'s irksomely hyperkinetic president, Nicholas Sarkozy, was doing in this weekend\'s summer heat. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: Italy's Lover-in-Chief] Reference
How irksomely slow the days pass until the score reaches his winning-line of normal! and in time he sees how easily it might have been otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
One only attempt seemed in her power for an honourable asylum, and that was more irksomely painful to her than seeking shelter in the meanest retreat: it was applying to Mr Delvile senior. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
This irksomely catchy faux folk song, together with Fess Parker's earnest portrayal of the frontier hero for Disney, cemented an image of Daniel Boone in the minds of two or three generations of Americans. From Wordnik.com. [At Home in Paradise] Reference
At a personal level, the defection of Quentin Davies to Labour on Tuesday was a Conservative gain: Mr Davies has long been a troublesome and tiresome Tory, and his new Labour handlers will find him irksomely high maintenance. From Wordnik.com. [Enter the clunking fist] Reference
They pass their time now not too irksomely as they formerly did. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Speeches] Reference
The more irksomely her captors held her, the more warmly would she remember him. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
` ` Yes, '' he said, seeming to be rather irksomely impressed with Alice's suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Alice Adams] Reference
So apologies in advance if I'm irksomely enthusiastic about my cool new literature delivery system. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
Uncertain in style and irksomely coarse, the play aims for Christopher Durang-style daring but misses the mark. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Upheld by this hope, which the Dona Luisa, when told of it, shared with her, they less irksomely passed the hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference
Gradually, irksomely, but surely and steadily, it developed, and at last it took definite form as a pretty successful wink. From Wordnik.com. [Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion] Reference
Perhaps the younger members of the jury, to whom the proceedings were becoming irksomely thoughtful, hailed him as a relief. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
I have long since given up that formal kind of correspondence where one sits down irksomely to write a letter, because he is in duty bound to do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Burns] Reference
I have long since give up that kind of formal correspondence, where one sits down irksomely to write a letter, because we think we are in duty bound so to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
I found it irksomely self-promotional, but I'm guilty of that very thing-I just don't make any money off of it - so I had to chalk it up to style and posturing. From Wordnik.com. [bavatuesdays] Reference
When Bosley Crowther, reviewing the movie in The New York Times, described Jacobi as "irksomely sluggish and pathetically lax as the weakling Van Daan," it was high praise. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
One only attempt seemed in her power for an honourable asylum, and that was more irksomely painful to her than seeking shelter in the meanest retreat: it was applying to Mr. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3] Reference
So don't be surprised: it turns out that blending the creative talents of two of indie-pop's most irksomely wide-eyed darlings produces more saccharine pop fluff than any reasonable listener can be expected to tolerate. From Wordnik.com. [Cokemachineglow.com] Reference
Whatever the doctor believed, he believed with all his heart, and would fight for it whenever he got the chance; and if the intervals between chances grew to be irksomely wide, he would invent ways of shortening them himself. From Wordnik.com. [The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories] Reference
'Tenby'"-- she waved her hand to the cottage opposite that had stood irksomely monotonous with closed shutters and chained gate ever since the Lomaxes had come to Burunda this year," and of course they will often want to come down to him to listen to his stories. From Wordnik.com. [In the Mist of the Mountains] Reference
The constables and the stewards despatched by the Bakufu to the provinces interfered irksomely with private rights of property, and thus there was gradually engendered a sentiment of discontent, especially among those who owed their estates to Imperial benevolence. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
All I hope is that you may think of me less irksomely when this feeling is no more a secret one; and all I ask is, Walter, in the name of the poor child who was your sister once, that you will not struggle with yourself, and pain yourself, for my sake, now that I know all! '. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
He had tried to-day, as never before, to make the most of this vision of a New Rome, to realise it as distinctly as he could, -- and, as it were, find his way along its streets, ere he went down into a world so irksomely different, to make his practical effort towards it, with. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference
An uninspiring opening scene in the Darling children's bedroom -- exacerbated by the decision to make Jonathan Hyde's Mr.D. irksomely childish -- gives way none too soon to the arrival of Peter (a bare-chested Nate Fallows) and his bratty Tinker Bell (Ixtaso Moreno in tank top and dirty tutu). From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com] Reference
McCain irksomely murmuring: “Don’t you dare wear more memorial bracelets than me, I only have one!”. From Wordnik.com. [Beat 360° 10/24/08] Reference
The season’s other Martins ballet is “Zakouski,” an improvement on “Thou Swell” in terms of sheer deftness, but I find the female role of this duet irksomely inconsistent. From Wordnik.com. [Ballet in London: New York City Ballet at the Coliseum - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The difficulty is that market-based approaches, like the pricing example above, contain similar anomalies: if one doesn’t like markets, one will think the market price irrational quite often, and sometimes obviously and irksomely so. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Challenge to the Ban on Compensation for Bone Marrow] Reference
"I know what you would say, and what you feel," continued Godolphin: "you think that I-- that we both are poor: that you could ill bear the humiliations of that haughty poverty which those born to higher fortunes so irksomely endure. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
For what is written irksomely, will be. From Wordnik.com. [Man of Uz, and Other Poems] Reference
Finally, and most irksomely, bookmarks. From Wordnik.com. [Chrome dome « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
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