Both Uses of
tedious
in
Oliver Twist
- It would be tedious if given in the beadle's words: occupying, as it did, some twenty minutes in the telling; but the sum and substance of it was, that Oliver was a foundling, born of low and vicious parents.†
Chpt 17 *
- The poor people were so neat and clean, and knelt so reverently in prayer, that it seemed a pleasure, not a tedious duty, their assembling there together; and though the singing might be rude, it was real, and sounded more musical (to Oliver's ears at least) than any he had ever heard in church before.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation