wearisome
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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
Riding this team’s annual shooting star has become wearisome.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 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
They crept forward, testing each spot before they put any weight on it, a process so slow and wearisome that they thought they might die of fatigue; but they couldn’t rest, they couldn’t stop.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing wearisome
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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