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tedious
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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- Then with a tedious and fearful slowness Uncle Willie gave me his rubber-tipped cane and bent down to get into the now-enlarged empty bin.†
p. 18.7tedious = boring or monotonous
- Reality began its tedious crawl back into their reasoning.†
p. 132.5
- We spent tedious hours teaching ourselves the Tut language.
p. 142.3 *tedious = long, monotonous (boring)
- A funeral hymn made its way around the church tediously but successfully.†
p. 160.4tediously = in a boring or monotonous manner
- Terror did not engulf me wholly, but crawled along my mind like a tedious paralysis.†
p. 235.8tedious = boring or monotonous
Definitions:
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(1)
(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, tedious can mean "long and slow" or "progressing very slowly" without any implication of being dull or boring.