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• After six months in a tedious desk job, Anna wants out.From the entry want out
• Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.From the entry pluck
• He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.From the entry ascent
• There was no tedious self-righteousness on the night of the gala event.2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian. From the entry plastic surgery
• This method of biotyping is tedious and time consuming (21–35 days).2015 July 31, “The Asian Rice Gall Midge ( Orseolia oryzae ) Mitogenome Has Evolved Novel Gene Boundaries and Tandem Repeats That…. From the entry biotyping
• However, most preparation methods are tedious and complicated; do not easily produce monomorphological single crystals.2015 December 24, “Seeded Growth Route to Noble Calcium Carbonate Nanocrystal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry monomorphological
• Swatching may seem like a tedious chore when you're trying the gauge for a commercial yarn.2010, Gail Callahan, “Show-off Patterns”, in Hand Dyeing Yarn and Fleece: Dip-Dyeing, Hand-Painting, Tie-Dyeing, and Other Creative…. From the entry swatch
• It was cheaper but more tedious to crunch the blighters between finger and nail.2010, Alan Weeks, Bloody Picnic: Tommy's Humour, 1914-18, The History Press, →ISBN. From the entry perisher
• Then there is nothing more to say about this tedious reckoning.2009, From Software, Dark Souls. From the entry caitiff
• In an age of perennially rising home prices, these tedious details could be dispensed with.2007 February 1, Edward Chancellor, “Ponzi nation”, in Institutional Investor. From the entry ninja loan
• This can be tedious, especially the minutiae of French laws and policies in Canada.2006 November 29, William Grimes, “The French Have a (Precise and Elegant) Word for It”, in The New York Times. From the entry Sudbury
• It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate.2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 319. From the entry a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
• The images it captures may be blurred, unintelligible or unwatchably tedious.1999, Peter Conrad, Modern Times, Modern Places. From the entry unwatchably
• But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr.1998, Frank Rich, Hot seat: theater criticism for the New York times, 1980–1993. From the entry retread
• Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary. From the entry course
• Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268. From the entry prolixity
• The Ned Flanderses of the world need entertainment, and they don't care how tedious, poorly written, and inane it is.2024, Chris Morgan, 99 Episodes That Defined the '90s: Television Milestones from Arsenio to Homer to Yada Yada Yada, McFarland…. From the entry Ned Flanders
• Taking soil samples is time-consuming, tedious work.2022 July 27, Somini Sengupta, Tomás Munita, “Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry squish
• Nine horrible, tedious, meaningless, worthless, baconless, cheeseburgerless, meatless years.2017 December 2, Kevin Shadow-Walker, “Various Randomness”, in What Is Wrong with You? A Collection of My Facebook Status Updates, Kage…. From the entry cheeseburgerless
• The steps for investigating a chargeback are tedious and labor-intensive, so most merchants don't bother with them, especially for lower-cost items.2014 December 10, Ines Novacic, “This fraud may be "friendly," but costs are high”, in CBS News, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022. From the entry friendly fraud
• But it must be said that much of this album comes across a little too consistent, almost tedious.2013 May 28, J. Andrew, “Album Review: ALICE IN CHAINS The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”, in Metal Injection. From the entry card-carrying
• Welch's tedious rant word for word in his ledger.2011, John Jughead Pierson, The Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody, page 3. From the entry ledger
• They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.25 August 2009, Mike Selvey, The Guardian. From the entry measure
• Just aligning all the paragraphs of 'boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!2009 March 30, hughess7, “Re: Mail merge to PDF”, in microsoft.public.access (Usenet). From the entry boiler
• This procedure was very tedious for me.1989, Dolores Cannon, chapter 1, in Conversations with Nostradamus, page 8. From the entry measured
• Fitting any of the joysticks to a Spectrum proved tedious.1984, Practical Computing, volume 7, page 93. From the entry expansion slot
• And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 13. From the entry disputation
• The method, however, cannot be considered strictly scientific and is much more tedious and chronophagous than the direct determination.1908, Harvey Washington Wiley, Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis; a Manual for the Study of Soils, Fertilizers, and…. From the entry chronophagous
• All cultural snootiness is now tedious.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry poptimism
• Success for Operation Teardrop had come not from aircraft but from the tedious sonar and hydrophonic probing of the depths by surface ships.2013, Carl P. LaVO, Pushing the Limits: The Remarkable Life and Times of Vice Adm. Allan McCann, USN. From the entry hydrophonic
• So while this week's column may be a bit tedious, it may also lay the basis for a vital part of x-word preparation (prep).2005 October 23, Colin Dexter, “How to solve crosswords”, in The Guardian. From the entry x-word
• Hard to keep that edge of horror over the death of another human being when it was surrounded by so much tedious scutwork.2003, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter. From the entry scutwork
• This includes pixel-hunting, the tedious process of waving your mouse pointer across the screen looking for hotspots that indicate the presence of evidence.2003, Facts on File, Software and CD-ROM Reviews on File, volume 19, Facts on File, Incorporated, page 240. From the entry pixel-hunting
• The days stretch ahead, dull and tedious, and the camp seems to be doing nothing, going nowhere, running like a dry creek.1989, David L. Moore, Dark Sky, Dark Land. From the entry run like a dry creek
• I find myself on Christmas day with people who are so tedious that a trip to the john appears an extravaganza by comparison.1983 December 24, Nancy A. F. Langer, “The Nuclear Family Holiday Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 15. From the entry extravaganza
• The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings.1983, Frank Northen Magill, Magill's American film guide, volume 1, page 647. From the entry byplay
• Many of the jokes are far past saving and a good bit of the chop logic word play is tedious word work.1974 July 1, T. E. Kalem, “Bard Becalmed”, in Time. From the entry chop logic
• Arcadian simplicity may be as tedious and stifling as the zippy atmosphere of Zenith; indeed, Sheila Kaye-Smith has found unplumbed stupidity in unplumbered villages.1930 August, Albert Guérard, “Graphopolis—a Utopia for Literature”, in The Nineteenth Century and After, volume CVIII, number DCXLII…. From the entry unplumbered
• Other species have evolved elaborate defenses to deter “brood parasites,” birds that try to fob off the tedious work of parenting by slipping their eggs into other birds’ nests.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry fob off
• The soldiers coming to out-process were not here to train, and hours needed to be fruitfully filled through the sometimes tedious process of leaving the army.2014, John O'Brien, A History of Fort Campbell, →ISBN. From the entry out-process

Meaning of tedious

1. adjective Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.

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How do you use tedious in a sentence?

Tedious is used as an adjective. For example: “After six months in a tedious desk job, Anna wants out.”

What is a short sentence with tedious?

“All cultural snootiness is now tedious.”

What does tedious mean?

Tedious means boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.