What's the difference between garrulous and tiresome?

Garrulous


Definition:

  • (a.) Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
  • (a.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
  • (2) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
  • (3) More blokey and garrulous, less abrasive and boorish, Farage narrowed the focus to Europe and, by doing so, widened the far right’s appeal.
  • (4) During the first week or two of his leadership he will be faced with the allegation – promoted by cynical Tory newspapers and garrulous Labour ancients – that he wants to take Labour back to the days of wholesale public ownership and subservience to the trade unions.
  • (5) If garrulousness was an Olympic sport, he would have a gold medal.
  • (6) Opposite her sits a garrulous fellow called Barry, who looks like he could be an old mate of Ozzy Osbourne, finds everything funny, keeps mouthing "I love you" at me, and is here in his capacity as her newly appointed manager and agent.
  • (7) Relaxing in his opulent Thames-side penthouse apartment, the only BBC presenter to be openly critical of the former BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas in the wake of the "Sachsgate" affair is as garrulous as ever.
  • (8) This is an old-fashioned guesthouse up the hill from the glitzy beach resorts and has a breakfast terrace and big pool with views over Camps Bay and its immense mountain backdrop, a comfy lounge and honesty bar – which is often presided over by the garrulous owner, Bernie.
  • (9) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
  • (10) In late June 2013, Christopher Catrambone, a garrulous 31-year-old American entrepreneur who had spent almost a decade travelling the world to build a multimillion-dollar company, decided to take a break.
  • (11) His position in the American canon is secure, however, and rests on a slender collection of immortal stories and one enduring masterpiece of a novel whose garrulous anguish makes him, in the words of writer Gish Jen "the avatar of American authenticity", a boy for all seasons.
  • (12) If they are looking to appoint a former manager, Tim Sherwood is garrulous and unemployed, Brendan Rodgers knows all the modern football jargon and David Moyes is back in the UK .
  • (13) Candidates are fat, skinny, tall, short, introspective, garrulous, southern-fried or blustery Yankee; the contrasts pop off the screen.
  • (14) If it seems a little incongruous for such a notably garrulous figure to work in such isolation, it's perhaps also worth considering that Lalas is a polarising figure within American soccer – certainly among the fans who attend games live, and who know him not just as the most recognizable face of the USA 1994 home World Cup team but as a three-time general manager (for the Galaxy, Earthquakes and what is now the Red Bulls) turned opinionated pundit.
  • (15) There were no histrionics or garrulous jokes – just a final sentence which, in a few rather sheepish words, spoke volumes.
  • (16) But on Saturday the ExCeL arena produced a coming-together of a more parochial nature as British and Irish boxers Luke Campbell of Hull and John Joe Nevin of Mullingar fought for the men's bantam gold before a thrillingly loud and agreeably garrulous UK-Irish crowd.
  • (17) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” You may ask, Where were the interrogators after installing the detainee in the frozen room?
  • (18) But if it's history as interpreted by architecture that does this, it's also the garrulous intentionality of the architect.
  • (19) More recent research has underlined the garrulous nature of violent extremists.
  • (20) Behind the high steel fences of the Manus Island detention centre, his health is often poor, his moods swing dramatically, from a wild, garrulous mania to black and shiftless depression.

Tiresome


Definition:

  • (a.) Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
  • (2) Why Independence Day: Resurgence's gay couple are denied a close encounter Read more While LGBT characters have maintained some form of visibility within independent cinema, they have been parodied, stereotyped and used for tiresome gay-panic humour in their rare appearances in studio films.
  • (3) Lord Salisbury, for example, wrote: "I must confess that I am not very happy that you should use part of what was very much an off-the-record conversation..." but then apologised in a handwritten note, "Please forgive me for being so tiresome about it."
  • (4) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
  • (5) Even at Newcastle last season, tiresome lines about umbrellas were all too common and it is hardly a wild assumption to suggest McClaren will be shadowed by his failings at Wembley no matter where he ends up in the future.
  • (6) This method can be used with all kinds of ligand but it is particularly useful for those ligands having the tiresome tendency to adhere to the cells non-specifically or to polymerize by themselves.
  • (7) The nine-channel pipetting reduced the time necessary for pipetting to about one third as compared to the corresponding one channel pipetting, and made the pipetting less tiresome.
  • (8) But on this day of days not even a tiresome intervention from John Bercow could draw a frown from Nero's brow.
  • (9) Rather than being offered some much-needed diversity, we’ve been given a stale reminder of the tiresome heteronormativity that continues to stifle change within blockbusters.
  • (10) Then there’s the even more tiresome question of why these racist men support Chelsea even though it has so many black players.
  • (11) Still, up for anything food related, I find myself in a central London flat (it’s central London only; of course it is) signing up for Supper in anticipation of some posh nosh without the need for all that tiresome restaurant-going.
  • (12) And yes, the “artfully distressed” or “industrial” interiors of 99.9% of new restaurants and bars these days is becoming a bit tiresome.
  • (13) Trenberth said that the website has made it easier to respond to scientific inaccuracies, but that the constant attacks on his and his colleagues' work by skeptic groups "is tiresome."
  • (14) The traditional tiresome English lionheart schtick does not work in the modern game.
  • (15) Played here by Anthony Hopkins , in facial prosthesis and fake belly, and the neither tiny nor particularly birdlike Helen Mirren, Hitch and Alma appear as an indissoluble partnership in art and life, suddenly threatened by pressures from without (no budget) but more from within, particularly by Alfred's tendency, now tiresome to the red-haired Alma, to become obsessed with his leading blondes.
  • (16) According to the author's data, forced insomnia precedes that psychosis in all the cases; it lasts from 2 to 5 days, being consequent on a tiresome journey.
  • (17) The idea of the flame and its journey is to imbue the branded and, I have to say, slightly tiresome modern Olympiad with the spirit of the games that were first held in 776BC in honour of Zeus.
  • (18) It gets tiresome having to do the same thing over and over.
  • (19) The extras have been feigning Costa Del Lols for hours, and it's getting tiresome.
  • (20) Thus was born the so-called Curse of the Bambino, maybe the most tiresome narrative in the history of American sports.