tiresome person

Example Sentences

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And only a very tiresome person resents their parents for having participated in a widespread community myth that is usually quite benign.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2018

“What a tiresome person Lady Crowan is. Do you really believe all the people round here are talking and dreaming of nothing but a fancy dress ball at Manderley?”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Then, growing weary of virtue as of everything else, he suddenly began to reproach Dion for bringing such a tiresome person to court.

From The Story of the Greeks by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

I had regarded him as a rather tiresome person in whom a pompous philanthropism took the place of human feelings.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

Alexander the Great was no longer a tiresome person in a book, who cried in an absurd way when there was nothing left to conquer.

From Peggy by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)