All 5 Uses of
tedious
in
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- 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..7
- 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..4
- Terror did not engulf me wholly, but crawled along my mind like a tedious paralysis.†
p. 235..8
Definition:
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(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation