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
“Though the road be long and wearisome that leads to a good neighborhood as wide as the world, we shall travel it together,” Truman told the appreciative audience.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
But when that goes on for days, and you haven't the memories of a night out with friends to offset it, it quickly become wearisome.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024
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
Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing wearisome
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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