Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being tiresome; wearisomeness; tediousness.
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- noun the state or quality of being
tiresome ;wearisomeness ;tediousness .
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- noun dullness owing to length or slowness
Etymologies
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Examples
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"tiresomeness," which is the prime stumbling-block to whole-hearted
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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Suddenly his troupe is not only siding with the fool to protect their meal ticket but seemingly pleased by Rylance's crowd-pleasing nonsense more than Pierce's plays, which apparently are sinking into High Art tiresomeness.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: Lombardi Scores a Field Goal; La Bete Better for Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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Suddenly his troupe is not only siding with the fool to protect their meal ticket but seemingly pleased by Rylance's crowd-pleasing nonsense more than Pierce's plays, which apparently are sinking into High Art tiresomeness.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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Suddenly his troupe is not only siding with the fool to protect their meal ticket but seemingly pleased by Rylance's crowd-pleasing nonsense more than Pierce's plays, which apparently are sinking into High Art tiresomeness.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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The supreme tiresomeness of red tape and management speak is, allegedly, about to be tackled at government level.
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In order of tiresomeness, we get: (1) A wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance between Little Miss College Girl and the poor-but-honest boy (Christopher Jackson) who works for her father.
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I know, because this has been my life since August, and I am pissed about the ongoing tiresomeness of it.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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I know, because this has been my life since August, and I am pissed about the ongoing tiresomeness of it.
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The revolutionary movement in the nineteenth century had seemed to such men a tiresomeness of slacking workers, aided and abetted by critics like
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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The immense tiresomeness is actually undermining my will to blog this morning.
Archive 2006-09-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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