All 3 Uses of
tedious
in
The War of the Worlds
- There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- There were no oars in the boat, but I contrived to paddle, as well as my parboiled hands would allow, down the river towards Halliford and Walton, going very tediously and continually looking behind me, as you may well understand.†
Chpt 1.13
- The Martian who had been overthrown crawled tediously out of his hood, a small brown figure, oddly suggestive from that distance of a speck of blight, and apparently engaged in the repair of his support.†
Chpt 1.15
Definition:
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(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation