Usually means: Causing annoyance or mild irritation.
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  1. irking: Merriam-Webster
  2. irking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. irking: Vocabulary.com
  4. irking: Wordnik
  5. irking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. irking: Wiktionary
  7. irking: Dictionary.com
  8. irking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. irking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. irking: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Irk)

▸ verb:  (transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother
▸ noun:  A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell in Manchester city centre.
▸ Also see irk


Opposite:
pleasing, satisfying, gratifying



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Opposite:
pleasing, satisfying, gratifying




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