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All those stories about his childhood can become tiresome after a while.
what a tiresome church service that turned out to be
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None of them are written with any specificity, though the actors manage to land the lines and elicit a few chuckles here and there — except for a tiresome twosome who try to speak with a Brooklyn accent for the entirety of the movie.
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Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
And then, after a while, that narrative started to feel tiresome.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
The Bottom Line Cutting through all the tiresome finger-pointing about who is responsible for what, the real problem with plastics and plastics recycling boils down to demand: While there is tremendous, growing demand for plastics, the demand for recycling them remains intractably low.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Plus there’s a lot of tiresome hand-wringing over guns, which seemed to be the biggest issue in every episode in the first season.
—Michael Alan Connelly, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
And then, after a while, that narrative started to feel tiresome.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
The Bottom Line Cutting through all the tiresome finger-pointing about who is responsible for what, the real problem with plastics and plastics recycling boils down to demand: While there is tremendous, growing demand for plastics, the demand for recycling them remains intractably low.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Plus there’s a lot of tiresome hand-wringing over guns, which seemed to be the biggest issue in every episode in the first season.
—Michael Alan Connelly, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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“Tiresome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiresome. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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tiresome
adjective
tire·some
ˈtī(ə)r-səm 
: likely to tire one because of length or dullness : boring
a tiresome lecture
tiresomely
adverb
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