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tedious

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


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But the idea that a documentary that isn’t detailing some recent or mysterious event is inherently tedious is a gross misconception.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

I recognize their dramatic usefulness — cat-and-mouse, stop-them-before-they-kill-again, detective-meets-match — but as a class I find them tedious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It’s a tedious rebuttal to Verlyn Klinkenborg, a fellow commentator on rural life, who in the New York Review of Books in 2020 offered a mixed appraisal of Berry’s essays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

They had little choice about their potential victims - in the end it was Jerry Hall and Ross Kemp who wandered in to join Maya and James A in deliberately tedious conversation.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Hazel could recall Hawkbit—a rather slow, stupid rabbit whose company for five snowbound days underground had been distinctly tedious.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams


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