tiresome
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Tiresome repetition doesn’t make this allegation any more accurate.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2019
He is a climate change sceptic, has been nicknamed "Andrew Tiresome", and in 2010, despite his ambition, he failed to get a government job.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2013
Tiresome though it is to note, music videos all but vanished from MTV not long after Beavis and Butt-head did, so the boys have had to expand their range.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2011
Tiresome swains can be cut off with a keystroke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tiresome old gentleman that," muttered Ferrers, "and not so cordial as formerly; perhaps his wife is /enceinte/, and he is going to do me the injustice of having another heir.
From Ernest Maltravers — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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