Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Irksome

Irksome , adjective

1.
Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us. — Milton
2.
Weary; vexed; uneasy. [Obsolete]
Let us therefore learn not to be irksome when God layeth his cross upon us. — Latimer
Wearisome nights are appointed to me. — Job vii. 3
Pity only on fresh objects stays, But with the tedious sight of woes decays. — Dryden