(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.
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.