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Adjective
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Salieri, despite Bettany’s compelling performance, is a wearisome figure consumed by jealousy while clearly toiling under a storm of religious psychosis.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
8 May 2026 -
The journey is less wearisome for self-mortifiers who never considered democracy (a word seldom spoken on the podcast) all that important in the first place.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
4 May 2026
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But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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Crucially, this Bond is terrific, not tiresome.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
1 June 2026
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Additionally, as part of the enhancements which come to other brands in the Creative Cloud suite there are new organizational capabilities, which can label folders usefully and gather relevant items into them, streamlining a tedious clean-up process.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The Obama administration engaged in a tedious, 20-month long diplomatic negotiation.—
Justin Fishel,
ABC News,
18 June 2026
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“Operose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/operose. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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