(a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
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) Skin deepithelialization is an integral part of many reconstructive procedures, but it can be a tedious and time-consuming ordeal when using conventional techniques.
(3) The method provides an antibody reagent that is an attractive alternative to other more tedious means of producing oligospecific antibodies, including monoclonal antibodies, for screening of expression libraries.
(4) Richard Kemp, London SE8 I know I'm being tedious, but what are "American" novels?
(5) Almond lamb curry: Atul Kochhar This dish derives its main flavour from a spice blend called vadagam, which can be a little tedious to make.
(6) Its reliability and convenience represent an improvement over existing methods based on the tedious and time-consuming enzymatic radioisotopic determination of the carnitine formed or on the coupled decarboxylation of [1-14C]alpha-ketoglutarate, a method that cannot be used in crude extracts.
(7) Breathe deeply.” With the worryingly rapid rise of diagnoses in autism across the world over the past couple of decades comes another tedious phenomenon: the casual use of the word “autistic” to describe behaviour by people who, frankly, don’t know a lot about autism.
(8) One of the advantages of OK-432 therapy over lymphokine-activated killer cell therapy, therefore, is that the former does not require the tedious and time-consuming in vitro procedures which are essential for the latter.
(9) Fashion people don't mind being dismissed as "weird" – hell, "weird" is precisely what they're going for, because they're trying to show that they're different from you, you tedious River Island-shopping pleb.
(10) The workup for polyuria and polydipsia, especially in those cases with normal or near normal blood work, can be tedious, time consuming, confusing, and not without significant patient morbidity.
(11) The manual radiographic method is accurate both in normals and in patients with airways disease but is very tedious to use.
(12) These methods have several undesirable features; some are tedious and time-consuming, some remove antibody along with nonspecific inhibitors, and different techniques are usually required to remove the nonspecific inhibitors for different viruses.
(13) Austen Lynch Garstang, Lancashire • The government’s plan to turn all schools into academies suggests it has reached the same conclusion as Macbeth: “I am in blood stepped so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go over.” Steve Loveman Sheffield • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
(14) This avoids the tedious dissection involved in looking for small distal branches with their variable location.
(15) Today's techniques can produce ordered arrays of DNA fragments and overlapping sets of DNA clones covering extensive genomic regions, but they are relatively slow and tedious.
(16) Many of the spontaneous and in some cases leaderless Arab spring movements of 2011 were unsuited to taking on the tedious roles of political parties and constitutional lawyers.
(17) The technique was further simplified by using commercially available antibiotic-containing disks, thereby alleviating the tedious and time-consuming procedure of preparing the disks.
(18) A major obstacle in the application of quantitative microelectrophoresis has been tedious manipulations and calculations.
(19) The advantages of the titrimetric method include simplicity, rapidity, convenience, sensitivity, reproducibility and specificity, whereas the gravimetric method is tedious and time-consuming.
(20) Recording the required information may be tedious, but it can be carried out using either a paper-based system or its computerized equivalent.
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.