irksome



aggravating, annoying, backbreaking, besetting, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, chafing, crushing, disturbing, drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting,

   wearisome - Herculean, aggravating, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, black, bleak, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, dark, dismal, disturbing,

   keep close - bosom, classify, conceal, hold out on, keep back, keep from, play dumb, secrete, veil, withhold ,

   honorific - appellation, appellative, attentive, binomial name, byname, byword, cap in hand, ceremonious, cognomen, courteous, deferential, denomination, designation, diminutive, dutiful,

   upstream - arise, ascend, go up, grow up, levitate, loom, mount, rear, rise, skyward, spiral, spire, stand up, surge, tower,

   loose for sea - break ground, cast away, cast off, weigh anchor ,

   bend the knee - bend, bob, bow, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, curtsy, duck, fawn, flatter, genuflect, grovel, kneel,

   make much of - aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, ballyhoo, bless, blow up, boast of, brag about, bubble, build up, burlesque, caricature, carry on, cater to, celebrate,

   masker - impersonator, incognito, mummer ,

   lord mayor - alderman, chancellor, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councilman, elder, headman, legislator, magistrate, mayor, minister, minister of state, reeve,

   cheater - blackleg, cheat, crook, fraud, juggler, slicker, swindler, trickster ,