tiresome person
Example Sentences
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And only a very tiresome person resents their parents for having participated in a widespread community myth that is usually quite benign.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018
“What a tiresome person Lady Crowan is. Do you really believe all the people round here are talking and dreaming of nothing but a fancy dress ball at Manderley?”
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
"It seems he must be the most exasperating, tiresome person one has ever heard of, Marraine," Tamara exclaimed.
From His Hour by Elinor Glyn
Unless we interpret the statue in this manner, it loses all interest—it never had any beauty—and the St. John becomes a tiresome person with a pedantic and ill-balanced mind.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
I had regarded him as a rather tiresome person in whom a pompous philanthropism took the place of human feelings.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
