Adjective : tedious tasks; a tedious journey. From Dictionary.com.
Sure, I tried to avoid tediously long corridor crawls. From Wordnik.com. [The Subtle Pleasures of Building a Dungeon] Reference
“Blood, as he so tediously insists, for the stone?”. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
‘But what was he really like?’ people ask tediously. From Wordnik.com. [The spoils of Waugh] Reference
The defense is very tediously going through their evidence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2005] Reference
A realization of what they were searching so tediously for. From Wordnik.com. [lethalpickle Diary Entry] Reference
And after tediously waiting months longer, I succeeded without. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Why does it seem that I'm waking from a tediously long nightmare?. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking From AP: Hillary Will Concede Tonight] Reference
The black days and black nights slowly, tediously, achingly passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
Toward this, in an advance tediously slow, the veteran made his way. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
And he had to work his way from one step to the other very tediously. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2003] Reference
But again the artist is tediously careful to make his meanings plain. From Wordnik.com. [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference
And of course they act very slowly, very tediously, for the obvious reasons. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2002] Reference
| Reply | Permalink because you're waking up from a tediously long nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking From AP: Hillary Will Concede Tonight] Reference
One by one throughout the afternoon the miles crept tediously beneath the wagon. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
She ate it in small mouthfuls, chewing tediously what felt like straw in her mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Obedient Bride]
I have dwelt rather tediously perhaps on this sad occurrence -- but I have a reason. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Lady Langham was there, and his neighbor commended her tediously, convinced of pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
It's the tediously consistent fundamentalists, religious or atheist, who become monsters. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer: The "New Atheist" Crusade and Me] Reference
And the police have gone through this very tediously and tried to piece all this together. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2003] Reference
The producers of the third, tediously awful Batman movie saved that track for the credits. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Motes: U2's No Line on the Horizon: Mostly Meandering Mediocrity] Reference
I might have been some tediously importunate client being dismissed with a scrap of comfort. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
They found things, thinly scattered in the ten acre area that Rodan meant tediously to sift. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Eminem's portrayal is tediously close to how my former clients (batterers) viewed themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Randy Susan Meyers: Sexing Up Domestic Violence] Reference
Take That are being tediously tight-lipped regarding the grand Robbie Williams reunion album. From Wordnik.com. [Top 10 albums of the autumn] Reference
The old gentleman looked carefully, but not tediously, at my goods, never questioning a price. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
It was tediously procedural and my mind wandered often, so that he had to repeat his questions. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Still, the second film, in particular, grows tediously episodic, and the exploits become a blur. From Wordnik.com. [An 'American' in Italy, and in Existential Pain] Reference
The children might be anywhere, in any form; only a tediously careful search could be sure of locating them. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
The things of glory in this world are not so tediously many that they will not bear once or twice the telling. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
The answer is tediously oversimplified, and tells more about them and their political ambitions than about Hamlet. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
What were you doing with your day before you sat down and started this hellacious and tediously long questionnaire?. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
Virgil's time, that figures in the vignettes to the "Georgics," dragged tediously along by four white oxen, yoked abreast. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
She gathered leaves and twigs and clay, and tediously pieced together a bag, drawing on bird lore that was older than magic. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
He began to think that what remained of the summer might prove tediously long and planned visits to some of his other estates. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Dangerous]
She'd failed to make several such rendezvous before the family lost touch with her, and the circumstances had been tediously similar. From Wordnik.com. [Disordered Minds]
Goodfellowe had shuffled tediously through the final Division Lobby feeling much like a cow passing through the gates of a milking shed. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
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