All 6 Uses of
tedious
in
Main Street
- The ancient stale inequalities, or something different in history, unlike the tedious maturity of other empires?†
Chpt 3 *
- I'm a tedious old fool analyzing the obvious, while you're the spirit of rebellion.†
Chpt 13
- He talked only of the obvious and tedious aspects; never of his aspirations in finance, nor of the mechanical principles of motors.†
Chpt 16
- It was tediousness made tangible, a street builded of lassitude and of futility.†
Chpt 27
- She had no ecstatic indulgence in the sense of guilt which is, to the women of Main Street, the surest escape from blank tediousness.†
Chpt 31
- She was encouraged to believe that she had not been abnormal in viewing Gopher Prairie as unduly tedious and slatternly.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation