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She's almost irksomely cute, first of all, with a raspy little voice and a Bettie Page hairdo.

Una LaMarche: Meet The Project Runway Season 8 Contestants Una LaMarche 2010

She's almost irksomely cute, first of all, with a raspy little voice and a Bettie Page hairdo.

Una LaMarche: Meet The Project Runway Season 8 Contestants 2010

But that's just what France's irksomely hyperkinetic president, Nicholas Sarkozy, was doing in this weekend's summer heat.

Eric Margolis: Italy's Lover-in-Chief 2009

But that\'s just what France\'s irksomely hyperkinetic president, Nicholas Sarkozy, was doing in this weekend\'s summer heat.

Eric Margolis: Italy's Lover-in-Chief 2009

One only attempt seemed in her power for an honourable asylum, and that was more irksomely painful to her than seeking shelter in the meanest retreat: it was applying to Mr Delvile senior.

Cecilia 2008

At a personal level, the defection of Quentin Davies to Labour on Tuesday was a Conservative gain: Mr Davies has long been a troublesome and tiresome Tory, and his new Labour handlers will find him irksomely high maintenance.

Enter the clunking fist 2007

This irksomely catchy faux folk song, together with Fess Parker's earnest portrayal of the frontier hero for Disney, cemented an image of Daniel Boone in the minds of two or three generations of Americans.

At Home in Paradise Bell, Madison Smartt 2007

At what a tearing pace he had driven up that road, through the yellow evening sunlight, the shadows flapping irksomely into his eyes as each wayside object rushed past between him and the west!

Wessex Tales 2006

Their timing as they threaded looms and initiated stroke against the tide was irksomely flawless.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

I find England irksomely restful and law-abiding after the Continent, but

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough