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wearisome

How to use wearisome in a sentence

He was so elated after his first disappointment, that he did not find the meeting as wearisome as usual—he could see Henrietta.

SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND

One long and wearisome evening, as we sat on the drawing-room window-sill kicking our heels, Peter came in and found us.

She could see now how lined and wearisome behind the smile was the face of the Queen of Asturia.

It was wearisome waiting, and there was a chilliness in the night air which had crept into it with the east wind.

But at the end of a long and wearisome delay, the little packet was returned in a tattered condition to its discouraged author.

Needless details may be introduced until the story becomes wearisome; it has almost no movement.

In this conversation, after a long but not wearisome journey, we reached Rambouillet.

The rapidly shortening days seemed longer instead, so uneventful and wearisome were they.

ALONEMARION HARLAND

It would be wearisome to read the lists of the crimes that occurred during many months.

The first day was one of visions; the second one of irksomeness; the third one of wearisome monotony.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985