The word "irks" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to annoy or bother someone. For example: His constant complaining about minor issues really irks me.
In fairness to Amazon, the failure is with me, but still it irks.
It's a return to the brand of football that the former Birmingham City boss, destined to fail before he even took his first steps at Bodymoor Heath, had brought to the club that most irks fans.
But the one that irks conservatives most is Roe v Wade.The American wayOther countries expect their legislators to legislate on contentious moral issues.
For the grape grower that brings the money-losing loss of weight and also the risk of damage from insects, birds and the weather.But what irks Mr Drake and other growers is not just the risk of immediate money, but the potential for the premature demise of their vines.
And Mr Chirac has tried to stop going on about "multi-polarity", an attempt to counter American power that irks the Bush camp.Yet mutual suspicion remains.
That irks Steven Sheffield, a biologist who reviewed the decision for the FWS, because eagles tend to build their nests in the same spots that humans like to build houses.
That something could be a civil war, or it could be a culture that irks them.
But this irks the party's saffron-hued base.A controversy stirred by Mr Gandhi's estranged 29-year-old cousin, Varun Gandhi, who is standing in UP for the BJP, illustrates its dilemma.
The concept of a "mandate" irks the small-government Republicans.
And the more he irks the Lib Dems, the less favourably they will look upon him as a potential coalition partner after the next election.
It may also help explain his intuitive embrace of the sort of cost-benefit analysis done by NICE that so irks his rivals.
