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Definition of Tedious
Tedious

Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

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Tedious Quotations

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.
Kathy Griffin

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.
Joan Collins

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Pierre Trudeau

Tedious Translations

tedious in German is langweilig


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