What's the difference between operose and wearisome?

Operose


Definition:

  • (a.) Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.

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Wearisome


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His full-time appointment would quell this wearisome rumpus.
  • (2) "They have got a very worrying and rather wearisome future ahead of them, and I just want to ensure that the Union Jack flies over Gibraltar but that that part of Europe starts to function normally."
  • (3) Maintaining control and managing resources for practice can be time consuming and wearisome.
  • (4) A particularly troublesome condition is post-herpetic neuralgia that requires a wearisome and often complex treatment.
  • (5) The problem here was not the issue of violence itself, but the wearisome ploughing of the same furrow.
  • (6) Taken together, these two elements--the efforts of staff to conform to funding agency requirements plus their attempts to provide clients with the level of care that they need--require that staff engage in a constant and very wearisome juggling act.
  • (7) Meanwhile, most western media have echoed Israel's claim that its assault is in retaliation for Hamas rocket attacks; the BBC speaks wearisomely of a conflict of "ancient hatreds".
  • (8) It also gives new life to the whole awards circus, which has become monstrously repetitive and wearisomely predictable.
  • (9) Going into the season the expectation was very much a continuation of last seasons upward momentum, but it very quickly became apparent that this was a fantasy and a long wearisome trudge towards survival became the norm - Michael Haller Wycombe Wanderers You could argue that it didn’t go wrong.
  • (10) She claimed to find making political alliances demeaning; her critics found her wearisomely egocentric.
  • (11) Meditating on her abuse-filled past, Ces tries to maintain her body and soul in a wearisome world filled with work, housework, homework and a mother who remains in bed half the time, resenting her for being a bigger victim.
  • (12) She doesn’t consider herself to be materialistic and, in normal circumstances, would not want to leave a job she loves, but the level of needless daily stress has become wearisome and she is constantly aware of lack of morale among her colleagues.
  • (13) Evaluation of potential candidates for cardiac transplantation is a difficult and wearisome process for both physician and patients.
  • (14) You don’t have to oppose the idea of monarchy per se (though you probably do that of a hereditary monarchy) to viscerally loathe the wearisome conflating of two separate things: a society’s honouring of self-sacrifice in war, and uncritical, often mystified monarchist beliefs and associated forms of patriotic feeling.
  • (15) Some of his effects are childish, others ridiculous ... [T]here is nothing more wearisome than the everlasting descriptions, the button-by-button portrayal of the characters, the miniature-like representation of every costume."
  • (16) To be constantly infantalised is both wearisome and irritating, not to mention insulting.
  • (17) Typically, viewers see no more than 20 seconds of the braying, posturing and head-to-head between the prime minister and leader of the opposition – exchanges that will probably have lasted six or seven minutes and will have been wearisomely choreographed to reach a killer soundbite climax.

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