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  • We spent tedious hours teaching ourselves the Tut language.   (source)
    tedious = long, monotonous (boring)
  • That 500th bullet turned tedious exercises into large-scale Russian roulette; you stop being bored the very first time you hear a slug go wheet!   (source)
    tedious = boring or monotonous
  • We never worked so long or hard that it got tedious.   (source)
    tedious = boring
  • It was tedious gathering the firewood; but it was grand when the fire blazed...   (source)
  • You find it tedious?   (source)
  • I already felt worlds away from this courtroom and its tedious "proceedings."   (source)
  • A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.   (source)
  • Streets that follow like a tedious argument
    Of insidious intent   (source)
    tedious = boring and long
  • It was most pesky tedious hard work and slow,   (source)
    tedious = boring
  • In order, therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series of sketches only the episodes that seem to me to be the most interesting and important.   (source)
    tedious = boring or monotonous
  • "It's going to be tedious, that's for sure," the sheriff said as he carefully looked behind a row of bird nests.†   (source)
  • This was when I dealt with the tedious business of cleaning and exercising my physical body.†   (source)
  • During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds.†   (source)
  • A sort of tedious maintenance routine.†   (source)
  • After completing a set of tedious and cumbersome matrix calculations, she blew on her hands to warm them, and picked up the latest issue of the Journal of Astrophysics to take a break.†   (source)
  • Simply put, the Count found political discourse of any persuasion to be tedious.†   (source)
  • It became so tedious and draining to watch that I eventually turned my head to the side, trying to keep guard with the corner of my eyes.†   (source)
  • "And it's incredibly tedious," Will said.†   (source)
  • So tell me, Lucille, what have you been doing for company this tedious August?†   (source)
  • "God, it's tedious work," Luther said.†   (source)
  • The chapter they had been instructed to read was so tedious that more and more people were choosing to watch Hermione's mute attempt to catch Professor Umbridge's eye rather than struggle on with 'Basics for Beginners'.†   (source)
  • LATER ON, WHEN I LOOKED BACK, what I remembered about that day was the morning, my fear that Rose sensed something between Jess and me, my argument with my father at dinner, the ceaseless thoughts of Jess Clark that were simultaneously bewitching and tedious, a kind of work that I could not stop performing.†   (source)
  • It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you.†   (source)
  • The townspeople enjoyed them in the manner that only people from small towns—who know how everyone's apron is tied, and by whom—can enjoy tedious eccentrics.†   (source)
  • Laws are a tedious business and counting coppers is worse.†   (source)
  • What would have seemed tedious to most people was, to Lewis, like a roller-coaster ride.†   (source)
  • In an apse of the church sat their wives and children, the objects during the tedious winter months of our ceaseless, ritual speculation (Why did he ever marry her?†   (source)
  • He tried to impose order now on the random movement before him, and almost succeeded: marshaling centers, warrant officers behind makeshift desks, rubber stamps and dockets, roped-off lines toward the waiting boats; hectoring sergeants, tedious queues around mobile canteens.†   (source)
  • The walk to the ballroom entrance was long and tedious.†   (source)
  • The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.†   (source)
  • Besides, I'd never let on to my husband, but the summer trips are tedious, just back and forth up and down the river.†   (source)
  • Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.†   (source)
  • And when he went out, I tagged along with him to galleries, estate sales, showrooms, auctions where I stood with him in the very back ("no, no," he said, when I pointed out the empty chairs in front, "we want to be where we can see the paddles") — exciting at first, just like the movies, though after a couple of hours as tedious as anything in Calculus: Concepts and Connections.†   (source)
  • the gym, instead of being tedious, was suddenly fun, because of the battle to come.†   (source)
  • But that's just it: this tedious existence is starting to make us all disagreeable.†   (source)
  • What's more, programming itself was extraordinarily tedious.†   (source)
  • Nothing radical, no hothead stuff, just ringing a few doorbells for Gene McCarthy, composing a few tedious, uninspired editorials for the campus newspaper.†   (source)
  • Rufus said I didn't have to, but as tedious as the work was, I could stand it easier than I could stand more long hours of boredom.†   (source)
  • The tedious work was especially difficult for him, as the cramped script on the scrolls was different from the printing Brom had taught him.†   (source)
  • It gets tedious, like anything else.†   (source)
  • It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed.†   (source)
  • Soon Nobu turned back to me and said, 'These bouts have been tedious.†   (source)
  • It wasn't any problem for you, of course, you could even talk to fire, very likely one of those grunting goblins taught you how, but it was a tedious business for the rest of us.†   (source)
  • Quite often it was tedious, and I'm not telling you the half of it.†   (source)
  • Gey still got excited at moments like this, but everyone else in his lab saw Henrietta's sample as something tedious—the latest of what felt like countless samples that scientists and lab technicians had been trying and failing to grow for years.†   (source)
  • Often, it was a tedious and boring exercise in coming up with the right answers, or rather, the same old answers to the same old Bible story questions, and then trying to stay awake during his father's excruciatingly long prayers.†   (source)
  • Locking him in the bunker every time we stepped out was becoming tedious, and as Jenny said, "What's the point of having a dog if he can't greet you at the door when you get home?"†   (source)
  • The whole tedious ordeal could have stretched to ten or even fifteen minutes.†   (source)
  • These youths are even duller than the ones from the all-Mormon Deseret Burbclave The boys are wearing tedious black suits.†   (source)
  • She wasn't tedious about it, though, and all the kids in Hurt Village called her "Grandma."†   (source)
  • I'm feeling really quite jolly, thanks to the wine and the tedious contents of Tom's computer.†   (source)
  • "In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations."†   (source)
  • Slowly, carefully, for eight tedious hours I inched away the inflamed left hemisphere of Maranda's brain.†   (source)
  • They promised each other to set up a breeding farm for magnificent birds, not so much to enjoy their victories, which they would not need then, as to have something to do on the tedious Sundays of death.†   (source)
  • He was a lawyer, member of the Bar Association, and author of a respectably long-winded but exceptionally tedious dissertation on finance law.†   (source)
  • Though if the next forty-nine hours and forty-five minutes are this tedious, she doesn't know if she'll be able to stand it.†   (source)
  • I want to ask her if it ever gets tedious being right all the time.†   (source)
  • The principal of Welch High School, a tedious man, keeps wanting to make a wager on the science fair.†   (source)
  • I myself was not to be bothered with tedious details.†   (source)
  • To me, it was a magical kingdom; everything was delightful; the chores that were tedious in Qunu became an adventure in Mqhekezweni.†   (source)
  • Donkeys would not have been so tedious.†   (source)
  • For a young, single person, living in a place like Goma can be tedious and confining.†   (source)
  • The small numbers were the most tedious.†   (source)
  • I'd be happy to get away from all this tedious conversation.†   (source)
  • THE FEELING STAYS WITH ME during a tedious dinner of lamb and potatoes followed by pudding.†   (source)
  • Hazel could recall Hawkbit—a rather slow, stupid rabbit whose company for five snowbound days underground had been distinctly tedious.†   (source)
  • I found the religious prostrations of my saber-rattling born-again neighbors tedious.†   (source)
  • She would call friends to whose faxed condolences she hadn't yet responded; she would call her lawyer about the tedious details of her severance and she would tidy all the other loose ends she'd left hanging last week.†   (source)
  • I guess it would get tedious after five hundred years.†   (source)
  • Days passed countless miserable, hot, sickly, tedious, frightening days.†   (source)
  • It gets tedious having to explain oneself all the time.†   (source)
  • It was a tedious process, even for a grownup.†   (source)
  • "And tedious was the operation through mud and mire," one man remembered.†   (source)
  • Now she sat resting in vacuous indolence, watching the card game with dull curiosity as she gathered her recalcitrant energies for the tedious chore of donning the rest of her clothing and going back to work.†   (source)
  • And tedious.†   (source)
  • Tacky pink flowered wallpaper hung on the walls to match the tedious curtains and upholstery.†   (source)
  • As if I'm interested in her tedious life.†   (source)
  • But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.†   (source)
  • It would just take a very lengthy, tedious, boring explanation, and right now I don't want to think about saws.†   (source)
  • He broods and drinks and brags with the other passengers, wisely leaving Sukeena and me to ourselves, except at dinner at a tedious captain's table where liquor is the official language and all but I speak fluently.†   (source)
  • For several days both sides made speeches, long-winded, tediously poetic, all lies, and then, with much soft weeping and sniffling, the Scyldings loaded up Wealtheow and the lesser beauties, made a few last touching observations, and went home.†   (source)
  • Dryden's themes are ambitious, but his rhymes grow rather tedious, do you not think?†   (source)
  • Dart went out into a day of broken light and raw wind and undertook the tedious business of servicing the ambulance.†   (source)
  • The necessity to cut off all conversation usually occurred to him after a particularly tedious one; he had just had it.†   (source)
  • All five of the shoots prior to New York had been hot and tedious affairs that made her feel more like a slab of meat than an honored guest.†   (source)
  • He'd enjoyed his conversation with her the day before, and as often as not, he found conversations tedious.†   (source)
  • When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer...slow, tedious lumbering, laborious, but invincible.†   (source)
  • I believe in the patient gallantry of nurses, in the tedious sacrifices of teachers.†   (source)
  • Can you think of anything more tedious than some big-chested woman screaming in German half the night?†   (source)
  • Never again would he be taunted by the other apprentices, boys much younger than he who climbed through the ranks in the guild step by tedious step.†   (source)
  • From the open door came the delicious aromas of several exotic brews and the music of a lone guitarist playing a New Age tune that was mellow and relaxing though filled with tediously repetitive chords.†   (source)
  • It was a very tedious job, and a big one for boys who were so young, but it was all part of our quest to build the best duck calls in the industry.†   (source)
  • This may seem tedious, but this is the most important subject to free people.†   (source)
  • In one way, he found making the phony tapes tedious; in another, he liked the simple sensation of it — pushing the tabs, feeling them latch.†   (source)
  • But when the harassment of the plebe system became familiar, it also became tedious.†   (source)
  • To distract herself she watched a tedious documentary on French television, and when that didn't work, she opened her laptop and surfed the Internet.†   (source)
  • It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine.†   (source)
  • At Vesper-haven House either an accommodation reached, in some kind of dignity, with the Angel of Death, or only death and the daily, tedious preparations for it.†   (source)
  • But for the most part this is a long, solemn and tedious Pacific voyage best suited, I would think, to some kind of drastic abridgement in a journal like the National Geographic.†   (source)
  • You find that the routine gets tedious, sometimes?†   (source)
  • The choice of go-between was not easy to make: Kali was the nearest to hand and the obvious one, but she was garrulous and self-opinionated: rejection of the young man she selected would involve a tedious squabble.†   (source)
  • He was not looking at them but over their heads, his glazed eyes staring at some distant point and his drowsy, slurred voice grinding on and on, tedious and interminable.†   (source)
  • It will eliminate tedious, unnecessary lawsuits which delay the right to vote.†   (source)
  • with the tedious and minute care of a jeweler.   (source)
    tedious = boring (detail work)
  • What I don't like are tedious, practical people.   (source)
    tedious = boring
  • Three dreadful days and nights dragged their tedious hours along,   (source)
  • it was certainly a tedious party.   (source)
  • Or castaways on desert islands, keeping their journals day by tedious day.†   (source)
  • Whenever we were doing tedious verb conjugation, I always got the lyrics to an old Schoolhouse Rock!†   (source)
  • It could be tedious, sleep-inducing work.†   (source)
  • It's all as tedious as counting coppers.†   (source)
  • For many tedious seconds I sat on the edge of my cot, swallowing indecision and tears.†   (source)
  • This can get tedious for a fellow Also, there was nothing these babes wouldn't do.†   (source)
  • You do know why I am giving up my evenings to this tedious job?†   (source)
  • Snowman had found birds tedious even then, but he wouldn't have wished to harm them.†   (source)
  • It was like some tedious pedant you got trapped beside on the school van, in Jimmy's view.†   (source)
  • Now there is tedious reading if ever I saw it.†   (source)
  • Although saving and reloading games from the tape drive proved to be a slow and tedious process†   (source)
  • A half-truth at best, though tedious enough to pass muster.†   (source)
  • If he was even still listening, he must have considered me a tedious child.†   (source)
  • — IT IS A TEDIOUS SORT OF DAY AT SPENCE.†   (source)
  • They wens beginning what they knew would be a long and tedious search.†   (source)
  • Jem preached the longest, most tedious sermon she ever heard in her life.†   (source)
  • As far as Salander could tell through the wall, it was one repetitive, tedious argument.†   (source)
  • "This grows tedious," said the lord in the mail byrnie.†   (source)
  • Has anyone ever told you that you're as tedious as you are ugly?†   (source)
  • You have a bit of tedious research ahead of you.†   (source)
  • Funny, but I rarely studied my reflection, rarely allowed myself such tedious inspection.†   (source)
  • Supper promised to be a tedious affair as well.†   (source)
  • Lilith sighed as if the whole business had grown tedious.†   (source)
  • "It gets a bit tedious down here sometimes, you know," he murmured to me, or to himself.†   (source)
  • OCCASIONS AT COURT grew increasingly tedious and strained for Adams and his family.†   (source)
  • So it did go on, for a long, tedious, painful time.†   (source)
  • Hardly, although the work is often as tedious.†   (source)
  • Life aboard the Selaesori Qhoran was nothing if not tedious, Tyrion had found.†   (source)
  • After a tedious day at the quarry, one did not much feel like working at a standup desk.†   (source)
  • The interrogation process was slow, and it was tedious.†   (source)
  • Each day the tedious celebrations continued.†   (source)
  • The work was tedious and often mind-numbing, but she never slowed down, never thought of quitting.†   (source)
  • The computer at Wildfire performed the endless and tedious calculations.†   (source)
  • Schoolwork, which Max had always regarded as a tedious chore, now seemed a monumental privilege.†   (source)
  • Reality began its tedious crawl back into their reasoning.†   (source)
  • The world's a grim place...worse, often tedious.†   (source)
  • Planting is a pretty tedious proposition.†   (source)
  • It was way too tedious and difficult for a course in freshman composition.†   (source)
  • And Cersei thought Lady Tanda tedious and hysterical, and Lollys a bovine lackwit.†   (source)
  • He was now a bored driver, whiling away the hours of a tedious vigil.†   (source)
  • While we are being forthright with each other, I admit that I find it tedious.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle had informed her of the history, at tedious length.†   (source)
  • God was my only companion through the tedious days and nights.†   (source)
  • The business of Congress had become tedious beyond expression, he told Abigail.†   (source)
  • The crunching rhythm of my steps was background music, low and tedious.†   (source)
  • Despite the importance of the process, Eragon found it exceedingly tedious and frustrating.†   (source)
  • Terror did not engulf me wholly, but crawled along my mind like a tedious paralysis.†   (source)
  • I find them tedious, childish, foolish and indispensable.†   (source)
  • A funeral hymn made its way around the church tediously but successfully.†   (source)
  • No one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously.†   (source)
  • Nor is it Just tonight and those tedious clowns.†   (source)
  • Narcissa, I think we ought to hear what Bellatrix is bursting to say; it will save tedious interruptions.†   (source)
  • A. Alvarez The Savage God: A Study of Suicide scending Everest is a long, tedious process, more like a mammoth construction project than climbing as I'd previously known it.†   (source)
  • But now I am counting from the first day I spent in the sewing room with Dr. Jordan, because you can't always count from the same thing, it gets too tedious and the time stretches out longer and longer, and you can scarcely bear it.†   (source)
  • "And as for this book," said Capricorn, looking at Inkheart with as much dislike as if it had bitten his pale fingers, "this extremely tedious, stupid, and extraordinarily long-winded book, I can assure you I have no intention of ever again letting myself be spellbound by its story.†   (source)
  • I even miss dealing with all those tedious yummy mummies who used to drop by, Starbucks in hand, to gawk at the pictures, telling their friends that little Jessie did better pictures than that at nursery school.†   (source)
  • So I spent long tedious hours trying to imitate her tiny, straight, even stitches, and she spent minutes ripping out my work and lecturing me none too gently on how bad it was.†   (source)
  • Every letter his mother sends him contains news of yet more knitting, stitching, and tedious crocheting.†   (source)
  • But if they wanted to play college football—if they wanted a shot at "the league"—they had to go through the tedious charade of pretending to be ordinary college students.†   (source)
  • The 17 hours of laborious, tedious, painstaking operating on such tiny patients had progressed well, all things considered.†   (source)
  • In fact, it is so tedious and demanding that many students leave as many as ten or twenty questions blank.†   (source)
  • The Dowlings were tedious, their eccentricity was flawed and made small by the utter predictability of their highly selective passions; yet they were a fixture of The Gravesend Players that provided constant, if familiar, entertainment.†   (source)
  • Mingling in this wide swath of strangers shifts my attention from myself, that tedious subject, to the world around me.†   (source)
  • Ominously, there were many cob-webbed boxes piled on a table where Harry was clearly supposed to sit; they had an aura of tedious, hard, and pointless work about them.†   (source)
  • I could handle lengthy operations because while training under Dr. Long, I had learned his philosophy and techniques, which included how to keep going, hour after tedious hour, without yielding to fatigue.†   (source)
  • By its very nature the enterprise demanded tedious repetition: for ball and receiver to arrive on a patch of turf the size of a welcome mat at the same moment, their timing had to be precise, and to be precise it had to be second nature.†   (source)
  • I do not usually attend them as it is so tedious, although Mama says I should take more interest in serious matters concerning the welfare of society, and Reverend Verringer says the same; but this time I will go, as I'm sure it will be thrilling to hear Dr. Jordan talk about asylums.†   (source)
  • I can't get comfortable, because every way I turn I run into dead ends: the closed gallery, the houses on this road, the stifling attentions of the tedious Pilates women, the track at the end of the garden with its trains, always taking someone else to somewhere else, reminding me over and over and over, a dozen times a day, that I'm staying put.†   (source)
  • Indeed, not only had Owen and I quit the team—and that infernal game—forever; other members of our Little League team had used the upsetting incident as a means to get out of a tedious obligation that had been much more their parents' notion of something that was "good for them" than it had ever been their sport of choice.†   (source)
  • Much of her work came from the sisters Rosenblum downstairs, who did fine finish work and gladly passed along to Mam the more tedious tasks.†   (source)
  • If Longbottom suffocates it will mean a lot of tedious paperwork and I am afraid I shall have to mention it on your reference if ever you apply for a job.†   (source)
  • Now, after stretching his wings he retracts them again, stretches out his head, and waddles, making his tedious way up one branch and down another.†   (source)
  • But I will not bore you with talk of money, as I know you find it tedious; although, dear Son, it does keep the larder supplied, and is the means for coming by those small comforts, which make the Difference between a threadbare existence, and a life of modest ease; and as your dear Father used to say, it is a substance which does not grow on trees...Time is not running at its usual unvarying pace: it makes odd lurches.†   (source)
  • He was no longer frightened by their negative electrical field, he simply found them tedious, or so he told himself.†   (source)
  • But not here; not in this gentle, tedious backwater; not in Port Ticonderoga, despite a druggie or two in the parks, despite the occasional break-in, despite the occasional body found floating around in the eddies.†   (source)
  • But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones.†   (source)
  • Nelson drew his knife and knelt to help me with the tedious work of cutting through the tendons and peeling back the pelt.†   (source)
  • At the great wooden table where we had spent many a tedious hour studying algebra and the Holy Roman Empire, we now sat down to take stock.†   (source)
  • The cross-stitch itself was tedious, but the prospects were beautiful; Mother had the foresight to give me a botanical motif, knowing how I love green and growing things.†   (source)
  • I can vaguely recall its twin red taillights ahead of us on the dark jungle road, bumping along tediously, and the false starts of an afternoon thundershower.†   (source)
  • He and Adams talked all the way, making the journey, as Adams related to Abigail, considerably less tedious than it might have been.†   (source)
  • Think of that, Katarina—no more tedious affairs with smelly goblins or witches or penniless refugees.†   (source)
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