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    tiresome
    [ adj ]
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
    <adj.all>
    a boring evening with uninteresting peoplethe deadening effect of some routine tasks
    a dull play
    his competent but dull performance
    a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
    what an irksome task the writing of long letters is
    tedious days on the train
    the tiresome chirping of a cricket
    other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome


    Tiresome \Tire"some\, a.
    Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing;
    tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. --
    {Tire"some*ly}, adv. -- {Tire"some*ness}, n.

    1. His lecture on Monday was free of the tiresome infelicities that sometimes mar his platform oratory.
    2. The tiresome logo is seen widely and there are now 200,000 members of English Heritage.
    3. Cynthia Strickland as the long-suffering Varvara is a tiresome whiner, not the inspirational counterrevolutionary Gorky intended.
    4. "Good children's theater does not reduce or patronize," he said. "There is an unruly and tiresome 4-year-old in me." Redford said the first production of "Peter Pan" is planned for 1990.
    5. After a while all the peppy chatter and bizarre behavior become tiresome because it's hard to remember who anyone is.
    6. More often, the usual tiresome Wilsonian parade of spastics ever so slowly crossed the stage.
    7. Some critics find her vivacious personality and sense of fun tiresome or vulgar, her adventurous spirit verging on the reckless.
    8. It is expensive, tiresome and does little in the way of immediate returns.
    9. These women are dedicated to improving everybody's lives, and also to not being seen as straight and boring and tiresome.
    10. I shall be philosophical, stoical, manly, for nothing is more tiresome than self-pity.
    11. Trade sanctions against Iraq prevented exports intended for military use. In his evidence Mr Clark described the trade sanctions guidelines as 'tiresome and intrusive' and suggested they were intended to ban only weapons of mass destruction.
    12. The company performances are suitably bombastic and tiresome. The second part of the programme brought us Bejart's version of The Miraculous Mandarin.
    13. Certainly the incidence of studied idiosyncracy in television mysteries has become tiresome.
    14. Some people are annoyed by whistling or find it tiresome.
    15. "It's tiresome work," says Tom Parisi, 34, of Templeton. "It's hard on your legs and you're bending all day.
    16. I make these stern judgments not because I am a tiresome kvetch but because I perceive a severe economic threat to the Republic at the bottom of these piles of sweatstuff.
    17. Too often the voices grow tiresome.
    18. ' The Japanese ban on classes was particularly tiresome for Bell and other officers who helped with teaching.
    19. Grey hair would be dyed, bodies shaved smooth and oiled to give the appearance of health. Bartering was a long, tiresome process with a complex set of rules entirely of the Africans' making and liable to change at any time.
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