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irksomely
adverb
formaluk /ˈɜːk.səm.li/ us /ˈɝːk.səm.li/
in a way that makes you feel slightly annoyed:
The restaurant's fine dining room is known rather irksomely as "The Room".
He has already sacked the irksomely independent judges who might have thwarted him.
Synonym
irritatingly
He remains irksomely unruffled, even when others try to provoke him.
They had a single hit, the irksomely perky "My Sharona".
While some can't get enough of her, others find her irksomely quirky.
The car is less compliant and comfortable than its rivals, but not irksomely so.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Annoying
accursed
aggravating
annoying
annoyingly
ball-ache
exasperatingly
frustratingly
gadfly
galling
gallingly
irritatingly
limit
maddening
mither
naggingly
spiteful
stupid
trying
vexatious
vexatiously
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