How To Use Tiresome In A Sentence

  • Don't you find it tiresome always having to be conscious of your appearance? Times, Sunday Times
  • McGregor is saddled with a tiresome everyman role, but Spacey, Clooney, and especially Bridges make some of their scenes work better than they should. Your mind won’t be blown watching “The Men Who Stare at Goats” » Scene-Stealers
  • God's omniscience means he knows all our needs and God's omnipresence means we can pray to him wherever we are, but if we fall into bland repetition of these truths, they will grow tiresome.
  • His zeal can be tiresome, but his writing is so good that you never feel like he's glossing the story.
  • The whining is ten times more tiresome than any dowd piece. Times Public Editor Hammers Maureen Dowd's Coverage Of Hillary
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  • In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating. Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels
  • Wayne, you adorable homophobic mouthbreather you, stop being tiresome and crawl back under your rock. It’s different when Conservatives do it.
  • Those in my tiresome generation who thought 25 years ago it was so very distinctive, so in, to swear.
  • I suspect that if the cops started hassling all the well-nourished bald guys with chin whiskers, I might soon find this tiresome.
  • DYNAMITE: The term applies to TNT's bittersweet Men of a Certain Age, continuing its terrific second season, but not so much to the instantly tiresome new legal dramedy Franklin & Bash, which implodes in the belief that aggressive quirkiness, smarmy frat-boy sexual innuendo and a "suits are douches" philosophy will endear its Peter Pan protagonists to a wide audience. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • Characters thus afflicted may be realistic but they are also tiresomely predictable in their cravenness.
  • Also tiresome is the occasional foreboding advice dispensed by an astral deity called the Moon Lady. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Book Review: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
  • The professors, for their part, were beginning to find it all rather tiresome. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
  • The new regime has no time for the tiresome (if unselfish) business of accommodating the wishes of other festivals.
  • Love your neighbor signifies assist your neighbor, but not — enjoy his conversation with pleasure, if he be tiresome; confide to him your secrets, if he be a tattler; or lend him your money, if he be a spendthrift. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • A metronomical performance is certainly tiresome and nonsensical; time and rhythm must be adapted to and identified with the melody, the harmony, the accent and the poetry ... Letters
  • I'm sure Max is writing in good faith here, so let's address this tiresome argument once and for all.
  • There are all the tiresome tropes of sword-fighting, mistaken identities, chases and rescues.
  • I will say, the ghost story is one of the most difficult supernatural tales to pull off effectively, especially in film, and one does not manage that trick by regurgitating every tiresome gimmick from the last decade of American and Japanese cinema (most of which never worked to begin with). "There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..."
  • I'm still waiting for the culture to rid itself of its tiresome reverence of the 60s and kitschy kicky indulgence of the 70s, and explore the 80s as something other than an era of legwarmers, poufy hair, shoulderpads and Dallas.
  • Delving deep into their oeuvre, the band blasted out their tiresome inanities to the delighted faithful.
  • Her features were still fine but faded and she'd lost that severity that had been so tiresome. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery
  • Triple chants have been composed and a few quadruple chants also exist, but in use these become tiresome.
  • They will be bored by the exposition, disinterested in "geeky" rationalisation, by diagrams and equations and dates and places laid out in tiresome detail. Archive 2006-07-01
  • These stories broke practically simultaneously, emphasizing, for me, the importance of paying attention to this theme -- which was, no, not the tiresomely repetitive theme of public men's private sexual escapades, but the tiresomely repetitive theme of abuse of power -- abuse of the power and privilege that come with rank, now known as rankism. Pamela Gerloff: If This Were A Dream, What Would It Mean?
  • It is as tiresomely literal as having a person fall at the feet of another to indicate they're about to romantically fall at their feet.
  • They know the routine and it gets tiresome, but they know they have to get the job done.
  • Rather, it is the one consolation of a tiresome chore. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those in my tiresome generation who thought 25 years ago it was so very distinctive, so in, to swear.
  • Graffiti is something of a tiresome obsession with young Berliners.
  • It was a long, tiresome walk through the outskirts of the town, where the dwelling-houses were, -- long rows of two-story bricks drabbled with soot-stains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
  • Pete is one of those tiresome, unctuous types who thinks he's a wit and is half-right.
  • It all sounds rather tiresome (why make up a slum when you can have a real one? Times, Sunday Times
  • What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.
  • You mopingly say “tiresome, vernacular-riddled articles are a constant source of displeasure for me”, but in your other sentence, which you cite in reference to hecklerspray’s panning of that film, you reveal that you actively seek out “tiresome, vernacular-riddled articles”. Bryce Dallas Howard Knocked Up By Husband
  • It was necessary to explain things at great length, diffusedly and tiresomely, to the superintendent, a coarse and insolent man, who bore himself to all the tenants in the house as toward a conquered city; and feared only the students slightly, because they gave him a severe rebuff at times. Yama: the pit
  • The skill is undoubted, particularly that of lead dancer Talia Evtushenko, but the attitudinising tiresome. La La La Human Steps – review
  • That many people have begun to find a recital of these dangers tiresome is perhaps an even greater threat.
  • Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, ‘Macbeth’ would have been a dull and tiresome play.
  • The most tiresome tales are those that are the most self-consciously metafictional. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The histrionics can get a bit tiresome and you wonder why they put themselves up for it. The Sun
  • As often occurs with tiresome converts, initially I became an anti - tobacco apostle.
  • Admittedly instant streetscapes and arcadian landscapes don't seed at the same pace, yet they are both populist responses to the ‘problem’ of the built environment's rather tiresome insistence on weathering at a stately pace.
  • After making a marriage of convenience with a tiresome Duke, she elopes to Europe with her cousin.
  • Another tiresome grand tour of the Canadian hinterland is planned, including a homecoming visit to the universities. Opposition: time to recalibrate
  • Tourism should not be allowed to become another football for the tiresome and futile political arena.
  • I can see life becoming a bit tiresome for him if he doesn't. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stick to transport; reserve transportation for the tiresome bendy buses. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the album's principle plagues is the near total lack of low-end - - all that unsupported treble gets tiresome after a while.
  • One or two tiresome individuals had soon yielded to a little persuasion. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • It did not share the metrical perfection of a Longfellow or the tiresome "priapism" (Emerson's word, which Higginson liked to repeat) of Walt Whitman. 'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson'
  • Woman may do, and does do, a great deal of unpleasant, tiresome work; she fritters away her time upon occupations which require "frittering;" but beyond that she does not do the "paying" work. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
  • I developed a tiresome cough that kept me awake all night.
  • Alas, many of my students have picked up both assumptions and it's very difficult to "unteach" these tiresome habits of argumentation. "And Your Little Dog Too!!!" Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants The Ruby Slippers
  • flower-prairie," with its thousands of gay corollas of every tint and shade -- with its golden helianthus, its white argemone, its purple cleome, its pink malvaceae, its blue lupin -- its poppy worts of red and orange -- even these fair tints grow tiresome to the sight, and the eye yearns for form and motion. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
  • Walking was tiresome as his feet sank into the surface by 4 or 5 inches every step.
  • Agreeing operational requirements is the first and most tiresome obstacle.
  • Telepresence helps to avoid costly and tiresome air travel, is more convenient than travelling and encourages more frequent interaction. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unexcited as I am at the thought of doing that tiresome paper early and arguing it in front of a couple hundred people, that almost-guaranteed A is a carrot I can't resist.
  • These tiresome but, one hopes, isolated problems aside, our Metro 1.1S is still running like a dream.
  • The very words "mother-in-law" can raise a laugh, though as agony aunt for Saga magazine I can tell you tiresome daughters-in-law are just as common. Boring for Britain
  • It just won't fit and it becomes oh so tiresome when people try to do it.
  • Would that mean that at the junction of the two you would be operating entirely different services with passengers having to engage in the tiresome business of alighting and boarding?
  • Sure their lawyers-are-coming-after-us paranoia gets a little tiresome after awhile, but that's just a symptom of our country's political climate, in which the only way to make sure you're heard above the din is to act slightly hysterical. Blog Reviews
  • All that airsickness, all those pills I had to ingest to force sleep so that I would be rested for the next leg of my and all those tiresome passengers I had to appease, had been worth enduring to give my mother this gift. Carole Mallory: A Reunion And A Flirtation In Sixties Hong Kong
  • It has started to lard documentaries with tiresome personal journeys. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes, when I am seized by tiresomeness, I and gaze at the sky absently.
  • Although the moves performed by the Z-boys were revolutionary at the time and definitely paved the way for modern skating, the skateboard footage does get a bit tiresome after a while.
  • Stop this tiresome time-wasting now. Times, Sunday Times
  • Alas, it is becoming as tiresomely cliched as all the others, with its share of scheming women.
  • If it's not witches (a la "True Blood's" detour last summer into the "maenad" orgy-mama storyline; boy, did she get tiresome), then it's werewolves. Season 3 of 'True Blood' adds a power struggle and many new characters
  • Trochaics have rarely been more amusingly used than in Lewis Carroll's 'Hiawatha's Photographing', in which Hiawatha is exasperatedly trying to take portraits of a very tiresome and camera-conscious Victorian family.
  • Unfortunately, the eviscerated shredding he applies in "Hallelujah!" engages initially for its novelty, but grows tiresome over repeated listenings.
  • One day everything is rosy and happy and going well; the next day, the very same thing has become dreadful and tiresome.
  • With men I find this tiresome. Times, Sunday Times
  • He happened to stop under the window where we stood, and (I suppose being told who we were) looked upon us very attentively, that we had full leisure to consider him, and the French embassadress agreed with me as to his good mien: I see that lady very often; she is young, and her conversation would be a great relief to me, if I could persuade her to live without those forms and ceremonies that make life formal and tiresome. Selected English Letters
  • The opening section of the programme, in which the tiresome threesome rummage through the day's news stories, has fast become compulsive viewing, for all the wrong reasons.
  • In one of the tiresome paragraphs above, I don't know which one, and I don't want to go back and look because I am as tired of reading this scary stuff as you are, I'm sure, we were looking for evidence of malinvestment, thriftlessness, speculation, and gambling.
  • They are young people and find the older and more self-interested comedians slightly tiresome.
  • Just as the ‘t’ in Bafta is their only worthwhile aspect, so the TV awards which come with the Golden Globes reveal why film awards are so tiresome.
  • In isolation, the stifling homogeny of the album doesn't come across as strongly, and the crooning doesn't get as tiresome.
  • This need to ape what other channels do is getting rather tiresome. The Sun
  • He is tiresomely interested in his prowess as a box-maker, or a boxster, or whatever it is in athletic parlance. A Fool and His Money
  • As a result, I labeled the genre to be sterile and difficult; the album's beats are very mechanical, sometimes tiresomely so, and the solemn melodies are unyieldingly complex.
  • It was a copy of Samuel Buckley's The Daily Courant, a paper which Man did not often bother to read for its tiresome Whig fervour. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
  • Anyway enough of this tiresome banter; I didn't drop out of high school to waste my precious time to exchange clever unpleasantries with the likes of you.
  • The last movement, so easily a tiresome adjunct, was played hell for leather.
  • I have a sudden insight into how deeply tiresome it must be to be famous.
  • Cr ` ebillon is entirely out of fashion, and Marivaux a proverb: marivauder and marivaudage are established terms for being prolix and tiresome. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
  • Recently the Festival has been under the spell of one of those tiresome trendies who use the great works of the past as a profitable vehicle to peddle their fashionable nostrums.
  • The unrepentant sinner merely passes into nonbeing: which after all is what he wants, increasingly while he's alive; the prospect of new life being steadily more problematic and tiresome to him. Ben Evans: The Real Horned Man: Exploring the Genius of Author James Lasdun
  • Therefore suffer from the hectic phobophobia the alleged psychological disease which show the feeling of too much heavy and tiresome in life.
  • What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.
  • But those weasel phrases get tiresome after a while, and people do tend to gloss over them; and, hey, I'm always interested in finding more gnarly ideas to take apart and play with; so I thought that even if I am going to blather away with my own jazz riffs on what I understand Todorov or Clute to be saying -- to grab these basic themes wherever I find them, see if I can play them back by ear, and if they sound right run with that, rephrasing them and putting them through the conversions, inversions and reversions of my own twisty, turny logic -- well, more grist for the mill is always fun. Freeform Critique
  • perfectly beautiful, but excessively tiresome"; they laid their heads together over Descartes '_Discours de la Méthode_, and profoundly admired the philosopher; they were enraptured by the madrigals on flowers, more than three score in number, offered as the _Guirlande de Julie_ on Mademoiselle's fête; they gravely debated the question which should be the approved spelling, _muscadin_ or A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
  • One of the linchpins of what I've described as the tiresome argument is the question of what it means to be human. The Speculist: Human Savants
  • There are few things more tiresome than shock for the sake of shock value, devoid of deeper meaning. Christianity Today
  • Most of all, the book felt extremely overwritten and her abstract prose style was downright tiresome.
  • Warren conveys Leidy's boundless curiosity for the microworld by quoting a characteristic remark: ‘How can life be tiresome,’ Leidy asked, ‘so long as there is still a new rhizopod undescribed?’
  • The process involved the tiresome task of the chemical separation of the element, its purification, and the final concentration on a small surface. 92 Since polonium did not emit beta particles that usually interfered in scintillation counting, its use as a radioactive source was most advantageous. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
  • How much of a challenge was it to keep the game's repetition from becoming tiresome?
  • No more biblish, no more tiresome polysyllabic nonsense, no more mundane middle-class mutterings.
  • Every tiresome pipsqueak with a website is mouthing off about some boring scandal in America.
  • Prowling the stage like a drunken panther, his tales of emotional torture may have grown tiresome, but his incendiary political material proved a rip-roaring success.
  • They're middleaged men and their sibling rivalry is tiresome. The Sun
  • (I think Family Guy is a truly awful show, but I can tell you why in tiresome detail.) Mission Statement Impossible
  • And I have some freelance work to do, which is a tiresome distraction from knitting, but very welcome income boost.
  • I fear that his comments serve only to lengthen already tiresome lift queues. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the conversation veers into territory she thinks is tiresome, she answers straight, while simultaneously killing the subject dead. The Sun
  • It was a copy of Samuel Buckley's The Daily Courant, a paper which Man did not often bother to read for its tiresome Whig fervour. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
  • A lot of people associate a taste for grindhouse movies with the tiresome condescension of the 'so-bad-it's-good' ethos, but Tarantino understands the aesthetics of aberrance that animated the explorations of so-called trash hounds. GreenCine Daily: Grindhouse, 4/4.
  • You'll find a half-dozen of the best dive sites a short boat ride away, which lets you avoid the tiresome schleps to and from the city.
  • After a long, tiresome, journey, me and those blockheads I call my friends, had made it to our destination.
  • I once had a tiresome interview with his wife about the beastly thing.
  • Interning is tiresome, in a dull and wholly monotonous sort of way, especially on Mondays.
  • It was a copy of Samuel Buckley's The Daily Courant, a paper which Man did not often bother to read for its tiresome Whig fervour. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
  • And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
  • To-morrow we go up to Town "pour ce bore," as the good King always said to me; whenever there were tiresome people to present he always said: "Je vous demande pardon de ce _bore_. The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
  • However, he admits that playing in a side who won only 15 times last term is proving increasingly tiresome.
  • I found things such as personnel problems and admin tiresome and dealing with banks and trying to get funding was a real hassle. Times, Sunday Times
  • My suspicion about the long-lived and very tiresome bacon craze is that the rise of vegetarianism and veganism, dietary choices often (but by no means always) promoted by the smug and priggish, has lent meat-eating a kind of roguish cachet, like letting your child go to play-date without his elbow pads. Stefan Beck: Meatopia: Meat-Up on Governors Island (PHOTOS)
  • What the Americans, in their tiresome vernacular, called a fender bender? The Sinister Six Combo
  • With that so tiresome old milkless a ram, with his tiresome duty peck and his bronchial tubes, the tiresome old hairyg orangogran beaver, in his tiresome old twennysixandsixpenny sheopards plods drowsers and his thirtybobandninepenny tails plus toop! Finnegans Wake
  • A lot of it is still closed and what parts were open was tiresome to ride, with one section being downright bloody dangerous.
  • On the Tuesday following, Mr. Parker was just wrestling in prayer with his charlady, who had a tiresome habit of boiling his breakfast kippers till they resembled heavily pickled loofahs, when the telephone whirred aggressively. Unnatural Death
  • People think that being old is tiresome. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their endless doomsaying can grow tiresome but more often it's fun to play along.
  • The plot is loopy, dopey and tiresome, and the comic asides don't elicit the smallest of smiles.
  • God gracious bless me, how my poor head is vexed and worried by that girl Gupe's so perseveringly asking, over and over again , about her tiresome letters!
  • There was a tiresome string of cash with a rattan twisted through their square holes; silver customs taels, and mace and candareen; Chinese gold leaf and Fukien dollars; coins from Cochin China in the shape of India ink, with raised edges and characters; old Carolus hooked dollars; Sycee silver ingots, smooth and flat above, but roughly oval on the lower surface, not unlike shoes; Japanese obangs, their gold stamped and beaten out almost as broad as a hand's palm; mohurs and pieces from Singapore; Java Head
  • Rose, unassuming, not even pretty, certainly tiresomely obtuse about some things, had wished him goodbye in a matter-of - fact manner which should have left him in no doubt as to her feelings, but her eyes, her lovely gentle eyes, mused Mr. Werdmer ter Sane besot - tedly, had betrayed her. A Girl Named Rose
  • It gets tiresome to do the google work for a 'naif'. White House Attacks Hillary Campaign
  • Just as I find it tiresome when punks like YOU treat us with condescension and contempt then snivel like a girlscout with a bullet wound that we dont treat YOU with respect. Think Progress » Fox Cuts Away From Obama-GOP Conversation In Order To Get A Head Start On Attacks: He Was ‘Lecturing’
  • Robert Coles's sketch about his fifth-grade teacher is tiresomely didactic.
  • Yet he had long since decided that these country house visits were, as often as not, a tiresome duty rather than a pleasure. DISRAELI: A Personal History
  • During the film's last act, when Connie has to engage in an almost unbroken crying jag, Arthur's genius at being simultaneously funny and touching keeps the gag from becoming tiresome.
  • It's rather tiresome that they don't get it, but the Heroine of Tuzla is egging them on in this and they are good little clintonistas and say "baa" and trot right along. Obama Doesn't "Take Fox On," After All
  • He has the tiresome habit of finishing your sentences for you.
  • I know it's well-meant, but when you've received so much of it over the years it does become rather tiresome.
  • But all in all, paying took about half an hour which was a tedious, tiresome end to what was otherwise a fun evening.
  • The color palette, especially in the brighter scenes, is so badly faded as to appear almost bleached, and the constant assault of flyspeck flybys gets tiresome quickly.
  • I toyed with being an aphorist, but the mode can get a bit tiresome. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
  • Well, Andrew, if you think the 'rules of theoconservatism' are so loathesome, why are YOU so quick to adopt their over-heated rhetoric, the imputations of bad faith to anyone who dares disagree, and lapses into nudge-nudge wink-wink innuendo that rapidly becomes tiresome in teenage boys, let alone something pretending to be a serious examination of a serious candidate for the presidency? "I mean no disrespect."
  • The four main hobbits were pretty good, although the foolishness of Pippin gets rather tiresome.
  • Ange admits to disliking discursive, essayistic language in poetry (and I totally agree that such anecdotal reportage is almost always tiresome), but I am not so sure that the cited poets, whom she dislikes, actually make a habit of indulging in such asensual, abstract writing at all. Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • I’m sorry, this is just plain tiresome; I have had root canals that were less tedious. The Volokh Conspiracy » Much Easier to Fight Caricatures
  • Harold rebuffed her, but reportedly told some close friends of his ‘very tiresome half sister’.
  • I found things such as personnel problems and admin tiresome and dealing with banks and trying to get funding was a real hassle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gradually but surely, that tiresome old anecdote has sapped my strength, undermined my constitution, withered my life.
  • And the manner in which political manhood gets displayed is tiresomely predictable: macho chest beating, posing with the fetish objects of anxious masculinity (trucks, big machines, and even bigger weapons), humiliating your opponent with castrating insults, calling into question his or her ability to be tough, ruthless, and merciless with the designated enemy of the moment -- in short, phallic strutting. Stephen Ducat: Revenge of the Wimp Factor: The Ironies of Proving Manhood in the Democratic Primary
  • No matter how aptly presented, these foreboding atmospherics and metaphors have remained by-the-numbers for the adult thriller for decades; and like the stale, recycled charades of today’s politics, they grow tiresome quickly, not overlooking certain autobiographical parallels. Movie Review: Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer is Terrible (This Review Includes an Exclusive Note from Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghost) | /Film
  • They're middleaged men and their sibling rivalry is tiresome. The Sun
  • Is this a naughty punky joke, a cheeky punky laziness, or a tiresome punky ignorance and stupidity?
  • It looks like he might just be fed up to the back teeth of certain tiresome middle-class women talking out of both sides of their mouth.
  • Does anyone really want to hear the same tiresome, self-serving nonsense after games? Times, Sunday Times
  • I think they were a little stuck-up about it, believing it to be an act unrivalled in devotedness, and they were most tiresome all the afternoon, talking about their secret, and not letting us know what it was. New Treasure Seekers
  • Over the years, Wright's melodramatics grew tiresome, but these were genuine tears.
  • Despite fame's oh so tiresome downsides, there are nevertheless two major perks.
  • How tiresome it must be, to reduce the essential story of the world to nothing by a case of unrequited longing.
  • This last consideration is too often forgotten in the tiresomely polarised debate about modernism and classicism which continues to rage.
  • Oliver, a symbol of the oppressiveness and brutality of Victorian child labor is in this adaptation merely a sad-eyed innocent whose innocence grows tiresome.
  • The poem of Fingal, he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images.
  • In conclusion I have to say it is quite tiresome and irksome to respond to some ancient email which has been dredged up and thrown back at me.
  • Celtic's supporters annexed the place for the day, filling every nook and cranny and, on many occasions, succumbing to the temptation to leap the hoardings for good-natured but tiresome pitch invasions.
  • It's a form of exquisite torture watching George and Martha torment each other, and occasionally this becomes tiresome.
  • But all in all, paying took about half an hour which was a tedious, tiresome end to what was otherwise a fun evening.
  • We thought he was a great big fat squeaky-voiced cricketer with a tiresome penchant for laddish behaviour.
  • Early chapters review the usual tiresome litany of depressing problems caused by traditional approaches to building and other human endeavors.
  • After half an hour in a cubicle, I'm ready to climb the walls (figuratively), but it takes days of working up on the scaffold before things grow tiresome.
  • The lineups are long and tiresome, but once you're inside it's like sitting in an icebox. 52449_CLARA
  • If the conversation veers into territory she thinks is tiresome, she answers straight, while simultaneously killing the subject dead. The Sun
  • But after four steps, it's all a bit tiresome. Times, Sunday Times
  • Van Bebber and Taylor pointed out the same errors in Ross's earlier book, and it's tiresome to see Ross repeating discredited nonsensical arguments time after time.
  • Been tiresomely tearful lately about the vegan Lothario & jolly grumpy about Keran always being around. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal.
  • And, as is so often the case with Hollywood productions nowadays, everything plays strictly to formula, drifting into a tiresome retread of countless other movies - ie, you can guess the ending a mile off.
  • Why let the facts and the tiresome routine of engagement get in the way of ideology…?
  • But seeing everything at once becomes tiresome, and I should think that the style does not attract much repeat business in either case.
  • the tiresome chirping of a cricket
  • I find it very tiresome doing the same job day after day.
  • Then Mr. Hunter says "the antisocialism thing does get a bit 'tiresome.' Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
  • But the term is not only toothless and tiresome, it's just wrong.
  • Stoke's success in reaching their first FA Cup final will not please those who believe that history began 20 years ago, with the founding of the Premier League, or who propound the tiresome belief that the only way to play football in the 21st century is by trying to copy Barcelona. Elegance of George Eastham embellished Stoke City's neutral appeal | Richard Williams
  • We fought a lot, and while the emotional roller coster was sometimes exhilarating, it had grown tiresome. How many clues does one need to give an overly sexy dresser?
  • But the battles are very frequent and it soon becomes a bit tiresome and slows the whole game down. The Sun
  • But the fact that the people for whom primarily it was written have taken it to their hearts and have it on their lips ought to have prevented it being called tiresome by a senator of France. Obiter Dicta Second Series
  • At length, as she united a final row of hooks and eyes, she found leisure to chide her, saying she was very naughty to be so unpunctual; that she looked even now the picture of incorrigible carelessness: and so Shirley did - but a very lovely picture of that tiresome quality. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Instead, this will be one of those tiresome housekeeping sessions on the fine points of osteology.
  • December has been a tiresome month, with hitches and glitches galore.
  • Frankly, that got tiresome after a bit. Christianity Today
  • We are certainly sure they come across that way to someone whose argument is witless, humourless, unoriginal, lazy and just plain tiresome. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Art is not a "hole and corner" thing, an affair of professional preciosities and discriminations, a set of tiresome rules to be learned by rote. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
  • ‘The answer is no, I am not interested, and it gets very tiresome to have it brought up all the time,’ Andrew told a cowering gang of inquisitors.
  • There have been many similar tricks, and the Germans find them extremely tiresome. Times, Sunday Times
  • Teetotallers are three times more likely to develop tiresome winter snuffles than moderate drinkers, researchers have found.
  • They're middleaged men and their sibling rivalry is tiresome. The Sun
  • What Maryna is leaving behind is not obscurity but an oppressive, suffocating fame; not poverty but tiresome social privilege.
  • When this became tiresome, he tried to dismiss the game altogether, only to find that he could not.
  • It was carrying around with it the junk and poor decisions from previous incarnations, and let me tell you, that stuff gets * heavy * and rather tiresome after a while.

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