Adjective : a tiresome job. From Dictionary.com.
The way they incorporate celebrities playing themselves has, sad to say, become kind of tiresomely predictable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
They're so common and tiresomely complicated, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From Paris: Savoring A Summer's Scandal] Reference
The result is a self-important but tiresomely dull movie. From Wordnik.com. [Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)] Reference
MB got a demerit for TF's generally IMO tiresomely louche ads. From Wordnik.com. [Tom's Best of 2007] Reference
Mutt knew what that meant and she was tiresomely happy about it. From Wordnik.com. [A Taint in the Blood]
Her stump speech is dismissed as dry and tiresomely programmatic. From Wordnik.com. [Terence Smith: Feed the Beast] Reference
She had been tiresomely helpful in the weeks of his convalescence. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
Unfortunately, this is a collection of tiresomely familiar themes. From Wordnik.com. [By-Buy Boomer Lit (The Boomer Blog)] Reference
Why do all the Maxine sockpuppets sound too tiresomely like Maxine?. From Wordnik.com. [The new Woody Allen movie: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."] Reference
He glanced at her inimically and thought how tiresomely good-looking she was. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
Once you hit on a winning strategy though, it becomes rather tiresomely easy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
The opinions are occasionally informed, often tiresomely cranky and never in doubt. From Wordnik.com. [2007 August « Skulls in the Stars] Reference
You are always so tiresomely silent, Don, whether you think a thing true or not true. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
Jameson, just down from Oxford, was an eager but not too tiresomely earnest young man. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
I see his point, though most relativists would think me just as tiresomely judgmental as he is. From Wordnik.com. ['Spheres of Justice': An Exchange] Reference
But he is so tiresomely self-absorbed and taken with his own cleverness that I find him insufferable. From Wordnik.com. ["Why Women Aren't Funny."] Reference
But that would make for a tiresomely hard game, so Isla and Dyckhoff carefully limit the AI's free will. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Tweaks Amp Up Halo 3's Killer AI] Reference
Jake D: you are getting tiresomely repetitive on a non-issue for folks who prefer thought and reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Vs. Hillary: Who Has The Magic Bullet Needed To Beat Republicans?] Reference
Don’t listen to any tiresomely predictable explanations of why Eurovision is the best thing ever. From Wordnik.com. [Eurovision Odds – Ukraine and United Kingdom] Reference
How tiresomely moralistic will the twentieth century's arts appear to our grandchildren's grandchildren!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers of Architectural Positivism] Reference
"Come, come," Blodgett repeated tiresomely in his thin windy voice, "over these rocks and we'll be safe.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
When it slipped tiresomely into the class of work and palled, he threw it aside for something more diverting. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Mr. Hazeltine sent his carriage for Mr.. Warner, and short as the drive was it seemed tiresomely long to Dora. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference
Soon it was necessary to discontinue the view, but the voice of the announcer continued, tonelessly and tiresomely. From Wordnik.com. ["The War of the Planets" by Harl Vincent, part 3] Reference
Still, his warfare against crinoline, small bonnets, and other feminine fancies in dress, has been tiresomely inveterate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
For the record Snobbers, Brompton riders aren't all British; tiresomely faux-eccentric cycle nerds can be found worldwide. From Wordnik.com. [Waist Not Want Not: Excessive Wear] Reference
Eugenia, anxious to get the patients 'dinners served, thought him tiresomely slow; they were barely halfway round the ward. From Wordnik.com. [Heidelberg Wedding]
Little Mosque on the Prairie, a tiresomely twee CBC sit-com effort, is nothing less, he says, than a vehicle for terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
It is the response to the present crisis that mattered most last night, and the candidates tiresomely repeated old talking points. From Wordnik.com. [In which I say who won last night's debate and almost abandon my cruel neutrality pose.] Reference
It consisted of the tiresomely predictable English equals bad and racist, all other nationalities equal good and racially virtuous. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Fraylingay, but the trains were tiresomely slow, and did not run in connection, so that it took as long to get there as it did to go to. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Amory was quite tiresomely sober; they had run across none of those ancient, corrupt buyers of champagne who usually assisted their New. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
This consciousness of his presence was, tiresomely enough, something not to be escaped from; it pulsed in every vein, keeping her awake. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
To those of us out here who have had to watch as the word "please" disappears between May and October, the message is tiresomely familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging In The Hamptons] Reference
By now, the elements of that strategy are tiresomely familiar to those of you who have been a part of this -- fiscal discipline, investment in our people, expanded trade. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks In Announcement Of Treasury Secretary] Reference
Commerce Dock is divided into two parts by a foot bridge, which allows the visitors to pass from one side to the other without being compelled to tiresomely retrace their steps. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference
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