Tedious
Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
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Tedious Quotations
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
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
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Charles Baudelaire
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
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
Manfred von Richthofen
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
Tedious Translations
tedious in German is langweilig
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