tedious

Example Sentences

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This is a bit tedious, and you’d be right to ask why this is needed.

From Salon

Every time I needed a single ingredient, I had to shuffle through a stack of identical, unlabeled bins, opening and closing them like a particularly tedious shell game.

From Salon

For some reason, polishing the furniture and the ceramics in the store didn’t feel as tedious as doing housework.

From Literature

His splendid book is devoted to a topic—the health benefits derived from exposure to high temperatures—that could be tedious in the wrong hands.

From The Wall Street Journal

Among the many tedious features of market panics is the well-known cognitive error of catastrophizing.

From MarketWatch