'irksome' is a real word and is used in written English.
You can use it when you want to express how irritating or annoying something is. For example, "The irksome traffic made my commute to work twice as long".
For sure, he must have found it irksome to see the fate that befell Rangers after his talents were considered inadequate for a club with European issues.
Personally, I've stuck with the show for the imaginative plotlines and strong characterisation – and very much despite the irksome "medieval" costumes (groan), stupid dragons (eye roll) and risible levels of female nudity that reduce it to soft porn for schoolboys (overgrown and otherwise) presumably too emotionally stunted to lust properly over, say, Lara Croft.
The irksome point about that worthy sentiment, however, is that it was delivered in 2011 by Jenkins' predecessor, the subsequently disgraced Bob Diamond, when he was allowed the microphone for the inaugural BBC Today programme business lecture.
Lloyd's irksome reference to "getting 15 of them out" was that of a man who felt that England's spinners had been refused several valid claims for bat-and-pad catches.
Devolving these functions, in which Tory rule has been most irksome to the Scots, to an Edinburgh assembly should do little to disturb Britain's internal common market in goods and services.There is also little evidence that the Scots want to go on to acquire such things as armed forces, embassies, a currency or any of the other paraphernalia of full independence.
The delays may be irksome, but they are symptoms of a boom.
Most Arab countries still insist on visas for those from elsewhere in the region, although some restrictions have been eased.Open widerSome irksome barriers remain.
In the same position, Britain could drop some irksome labour rules.
The number of visitors doubled in four years.Ever since, Tourism Australia, the government outfit charged with pulling in tourists, has faced the irksome task of escaping from Mr Hogan's larger-than-life shadow.
Waiting lists, irksome to British patients, were viewed as an advance on a system where the well-off push to the front of the queue in return for generous backhanders.Politically, the vogue for NHS-inspired health care could suit Britain's governing coalition, because it alleviates the bad news about domestic failures.
As they shopped in IKEA, ate out in restaurants and holidayed in Europe (see chart) their habits and expectations began to change; but even as their size grew, their access to representation did not.Accustomed to choice and respect as consumers, they have found their contacts with the state ever more irksome.
