Crossword-Solution: IRKSOME 7 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Irksome a. Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason
of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
Irksome a. Weary; vexed; uneasy.

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IRKSOME anagram SKIMORE, SMOKIER

We have 36 clues for the answer “IRKSOME”

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Dander-raising 1 answer
Really annoying 1 answer
Nettling 2 answers
causing vexation 2 answers
Like gnats 2 answers
Like a gnat 3 answers
Troubling 6 answers
CHILD ANNOYING 10 answers
ANNOYING CHILD 10 answers
ANNOYING BUZZER 11 answers
Pestiferous 20 answers
exasperating 25 answers
tiring 29 answers
inconvenient 31 answers
bothersome 31 answers
Vexing. 31 answers
trying 34 answers
inflammatory 35 answers
Monotonous 39 answers
Irritating 43 answers
Grating 49 answers
Tiresome 50 answers
aggravating 52 answers
Wearing 63 answers
Annoying 65 answers
Obnoxious 74 answers
cranky 74 answers
Tedious 76 answers
Uninteresting 76 answers
petulant 79 answers
Vexatious 79 answers
troublesome 82 answers
Apathetic 85 answers
Unpleasant 87 answers
Offensive 92 answers
Dull 115 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IRKSOME (5)

Thence more at ease thir minds and somwhat rais’d By false presumptuous hope, the ranged powers Disband, and wandring, each his several way Pursues, as inclination or sad choice Leads him perplext, where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain The irksome hours, till his great Chief return.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Throughout the length of this narrow and irksome inclined plane not a sign of life was visible on this garish afternoon.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
His position is then one of the most singularly irksome, and, in every contingency, disagreeable, that a wretched mortal can possibly occupy; with seldom an alternative of good on either hand, although what presents itself to him as the worst event may very probably be the best.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
She was still Methodist enough to believe that if a thing were hard and irksome, it must be good for her.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Half a dozen chairs stood about the room, straight and stiff, and so ingeniously contrived for the discomfort of the human person that they were irksome even to sight, and conveyed the ugliest possible idea of the state of society to which they could have been adapted.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with IRKSOME (3)

But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself bef…
Soren Kierkegaard
The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad exposed to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).At thy return my blushing was not small, My rambling brat (in print) should mother call. I cast thee by as one unfit for light, The visage was so irksome in my sight, Yet be…
Anne Bradstreet The Works of Anne Bradstreet
You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy. Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which you were wont to share at Bath, the very idea of which without her is abhorrent. You would not, for instance, now go to a ball for the world. You feel that you have no longer any friend to whom you can speak with unreserve; on whose regard you can place dependence; or whose counsel, …
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
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Used 42 times in crossword archives (1988–2023).