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tedious

[tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs] / ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəs /


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For some reason, polishing the furniture and the ceramics in the store didn’t feel as tedious as doing housework.

From Literature

His splendid book is devoted to a topic—the health benefits derived from exposure to high temperatures—that could be tedious in the wrong hands.

From The Wall Street Journal

Among the many tedious features of market panics is the well-known cognitive error of catastrophizing.

From MarketWatch

Peer review is a process in which other researchers evaluate the papers for accuracy and likely replicability, but it can be a tedious process.

From Salon

A lawyer by training, he seems to function primarily by breaking any challenge into small pieces to be noodled over at tedious length one by one.

From The Wall Street Journal