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

ADELAIDE: Probably a tiresome person too incompetent to make a perfect tower.

From Plays by Glaspell, Susan

This tiresome person finds himself unexpectedly obliged to give up possession of his house.

From The Guilty River by Collins, Wilkie

I had regarded him as a rather tiresome person in whom a pompous philanthropism took the place of human feelings.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph