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wearisome

[weer-ee-suhm] / ˈwɪər i səm /




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But any visitor who has circled the White House on foot knows that it’s a decidedly wearisome experience, punctuated by the detritus of security barriers and by efforts to keep the public at bay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

"Alas, it was also, as this wearisome musical prequel cruelly demonstrates, a mistake."

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023

That gift grows more wearisome in the book’s final sections, as Markley balances ever-more-intense portraits of devastation with ever more pages of Ashir’s policy wonkery and scenes of boardroom debates.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

Jessop is similarly withering about several guests who do not appear on the Titanic's passenger list; according to Maxtone-Graham, they may represent "composites of passenger types" who made wearisome demands on the crew.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

The little beasts are hard and the everlasting cracking with one’s fingernails very soon becomes wearisome.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque




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