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tiresome

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For example, building blocks have been a popular choice for decades, and with good reason, they allow for free form creative play, elementary building, and engineering skills, all without tiresome rules and branded characters.

The tendency to go to Lincoln or FDR or George Washington or whatever, I find it kind of tiresome, to be honest.

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But how could you a call a signature talent that shone for more than four decades in show business tiresome?

The reason Price of Fame ultimately becomes tiresome is our increasing awareness of how adrift the woman at its center is.

But it was so tiresome that even the biggest Broadway baby was fantasizing about the possibility of a CSI repeat to end our pain.

Thankfully, those tiresome steps lead to a lovely reward: You get to eat bacon.

If that strikes us as tiresome and tedious, we might as well just hang it up and trigger some global thermonuclear war.

This was somewhat tiresome; and, after a rather feeble attempt at a third laugh, Davy said, "I don't feel like it any more."

I thought this young man was going to read us some of his poetry; it's too tiresome of him to stop to tell us about his bull-dog.

"It is very tiresome," said Ethel, nearly convinced, but in a slightly petulant voice.

What an unpleasant and tiresome awakening from my dreams I experienced on my friends return!

Nearly all that she says would be tiresome amplification if any other was speaking of Phædra's passion.

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On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tiresome, such as: annoying, boring, dull, exhausting, ho-hum, and laborious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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