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the feeling of being bored by something that is uninteresting

I'm grateful I have others to deal with the tedium.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn

Sometimes I was off at midnight, sometimes not until two A.M. Tedium alternated with Grand Guignol, and Grand Guignol with high comedy.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
They hate the guards, they hate the food, they hate the tedium.
Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
I'm. pleased to have found a friend at these balls, where I expected to find only tedium... Does Ella (oops) Lela want more than friendship?
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
Yet, hours into the night, I lay awake arguing with myself: relentless tedium, back and forth, what if, what if, what harm could it do?
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
I often thought of the tedium of life once one had seen all its surprises.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
If this was power, why did it taste like tedium?
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
For there was one last letter, this one in code, seemingly innocuous in its babbling about hunting and the tedium of life in Niagara.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
To reduce the tedium of the journey, Orik played a game of riddles with Saphira.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Others, whose briefer span forbade their devoting themselves to studies so abstruse, beguiled the little tedium of the way with penny-papers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Tedium is the worst pain.
John Gardner -- Grendel
I have a memory of infinite tedium.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
It was Leora who bore the real tedium.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
The rest was a tedium the queen knew well.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
[Despairingly] I am dying of this tedium.
Anton Chekhov -- Uncle Vanya
But the view—of the blank face of the compound's outer wall—provided no relief from the tedium of the room.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
He preferred to hunt and hawk, and leave the tedium to old Lord Arryn.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Inching to the pantry, I knew that this game, born out of monsoon tedium, was no longer that.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
But, in the end, even that distraction with no expectation only increased the tedium.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

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