Adjective : a tiresome job. From Dictionary.com.
"tiresomeness," which is the prime stumbling-block to whole-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
I become suddenly frustrated with the tiresomeness of pecking. From Wordnik.com. [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference
The immense tiresomeness is actually undermining my will to blog this morning. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
March 11, 2006, 4: 31 pm diovan says: diovan vomit disappoint glisten. tiresomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Volokh Conspiracy Sells Out:] Reference
"Ruslán and Liudmíla," poetry and tiresomeness had been, in Russia, convertible terms. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Everyone enjoys the pleasure of travel; but nearly all shrink back from its tiresomeness and drudgery. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
The supreme tiresomeness of red tape and management speak is, allegedly, about to be tackled at government level. From Wordnik.com. [Big Brother; Father & Son; Dispatches; Luther] Reference
You've got beyond your childish tiresomeness now, and have only to ask, and then I will tell you all you don't know. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The revolutionary movement in the nineteenth century had seemed to such men a tiresomeness of slacking workers, aided and abetted by critics like. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
He was unkempt; he dropped things on his coat; he had the tiresomeness of an old man with nothing in the world to do; and she turned him out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [To the Lighthouse] Reference
Mrs. Orr but stands as a type illustrating far too many mortally wearisome, social pretenders, prominent only through the tireless tiresomeness of their much speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Mr. Stabler has not let him come before us in his deerskin hunting-shirt, but has made him presentable by getting him into a black dress-coat, the uniform of perfect respectability and tiresomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
And, keeping the figure a little longer, even at the cost of tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have to crush and smelt in order to get at it. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
It is a sad thing to consider how much of their abilities people turn to tiresomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Friends in Council — First Series] Reference
Apart from its tiresomeness she did not even like it, and she would tell Lady Caroline not to order it again. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
His tiresomeness will find its corrective in your sagacity: all that was formidable about him facts have taken away. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities] Reference
Her letters and journal teem to tiresomeness with the refrain, "I feel myself extremely neglected for unborn generations.". From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
Forgive my tiresomeness; it does not come from want of sympathy, only from a little want of hope, the result of experience. From Wordnik.com. [Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography] Reference
Can you think of garrulous persons among your acquaintance the explanation of whose tiresomeness is that their association is of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and Its Education] Reference
At least, that is what it came to in the end; but there were leisurely earlier pages dealing with such subjects as the tiresomeness of. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
Reserve Bank governors normally sound as if they have all attended the same public speaking school to be instructed in the art of tiresomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
He began to see that he was enjoying his time in Monteriano, in spite of the tiresomeness of his companions and the occasional contrariness of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Where Angels Fear to Tread] Reference
Another very entertaining fellow for those who are willing to work through a pretty thick husk of tiresomeness for a genuine kernel of humor underneath is Coddington. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books First Series] Reference
I seem to be reiterating this point to the verge of tiresomeness, but it is so vitally important to understand, because its non-comprehension produces such injustice. From Wordnik.com. [Three Things] Reference
And so far, at least from what I've seen, he's not trotting out the same gimmicks to the point of tiresomeness (Headlines, Will It Float, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog). From Wordnik.com. [Pajiba] Reference
She fancied a Boston note in that scorn for the tiresomeness of Dresden; but the girl's style was of New York rather than of Boston, and her accent was not quite of either place. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
They are driven from home in the summer, partly by the tiresomeness of a listless and monotonous indolence, and partly, by the unhealthiness of the climate, which is much aggravated by the rice cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive]
“I’ve never heard of these caves, I don’t know what or where they are,” said Mrs. Moore, “but I really can’t have “— she tapped the cushion beside her —” so much quarrelling and tiresomeness!”. From Wordnik.com. [A Passage To India]
March 17, 2007 6:41 PM , tiresomeness said. From Wordnik.com. [Comment Registration: The Experiment Ends Early] Reference
Her beauty is part of the general tiresomeness of the whole situation. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference
"Probably, he bears it because he thinks her tiresomeness will soon be over. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel] Reference
Roth, Philip, virtuosity of, 120; tiresomeness of, 133. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Who] Reference
Well I would just like to say that I found the postings of "sturgess" ,"mike" ,"tedious" ,"tiresome" and "tiresomeness" to be a cut above. From Wordnik.com. [Comment Registration: The Experiment Ends Early] Reference
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