irk in English

verb

1

irritate; annoy.

it irks her to think of the runaround she received

synonyms: irritate, annoy, gall, pique, nettle, exasperate, try someone's patience, anger, infuriate, madden, incense, get on someone's nerves, antagonize, provoke, get someone's dander up, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, rub the wrong way, get (someone's goat), get/put someone's back up, make someone's blood boil, peeve, miff, frost, rile, aggravate, needle, get to, bug, drive mad/crazy, tee off, tick off, piss off, PO, rankle, ride, drive up the wall, make someone see red

verb

• irritate, annoy, gall, pique, nettle, exasperate, try someone's patience, anger, infuriate, madden, incense, get on someone's nerves, antagonize, provoke, get someone's dander up, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, rub the wrong way, get (someone's goat), get/put someone's back up, make someone's blood boil, peeve, miff, frost, rile, aggravate, needle, get to, bug, drive mad/crazy, tee off, tick off, piss off, PO, rankle, ride, drive up the wall, make someone see red
• gall

Use "irk" in a sentence

1. Does baggy clothes irk your parents?

2. Annoy irritate bother irk vex provoke aggravate peeve rile.

3. Bother definition is - to annoy especially by petty provocation : irk

4. By midday the irk of his pack became too oppressive.

5. This reversal of roles, she had sensed, would irk him.

6. His outspoken honesty continues to irk those in power or who are privileged, but endears him to ordinary people.

7. This may irk Canadians, but we really do share a common North American culture.

8. A single instance of low-grade, accidental Creepiness may irk or confuse people, but they won't run for the pitchforks

9. Synonyms for Aggravate include annoy, irritate, exasperate, irk, nettle, vex, peeve, pique, provoke and rile

10. The Bhagwan's flamboyant followers irk the tight-knit locals, who pursue legal action against the commune

11. Don't like the color of light? Use these bulbs for closets, laundry rooms and other places where it won't irk you as much.

12. But there's another quality that might irk them even more: Witnessing employees being openly rude to each other.

13. Synonyms: Annoy, irritate, bother, irk, vex, provoke, aggravate, peeve, rile These verbs mean to disturb or trouble a person, evoking moderate anger

14. Nearly half the writers pick A, but the correct answer is D. Puns are not allowed, spoiled fruit isn't even remotely funny, and defaming mothers-in-law could irk mothers-in-law.

15. This purports to be more than just a bid to irk Labour by pinching one of its favourite adjectives, promising to realise "progressive ends by conservative means".

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17. • The Noble Messenger (s) said: “Whoever Backbites a Muslim spoils his fasts and breaks his wudu', and shall come on the Day of Resurrection with his mouth's stench more putrid than a carcass', and it shall irk those who are with him in his station (mawqif)

18. SYNONYMY NOTE: Annoy implies temporary disturbance of mind caused by something that displeases one or tries one's patience; , vex implies a more serious source of irritation and greater disturbance, often intense worry; , irk stresses a wearing down of one's patience by persistent Annoyance; , bother implies minor disturbance of one's peace of mind and may suggest mild …

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