The movie was three hours of tedium.
I took a day off to relieve the tedium of work.
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Of course, the tedium is the point.—
John Koetsier,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026 The art of roster architecture has been replaced by the tedium of money management in many cases.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026 There is a tedium, however, to scrolling through a bunch of stuff that isn’t real, that maybe isn’t even pretending to be real, all for the sake of lying for no reason.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026 Part of the tedium should’ve been anticipated.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tedium
Word History
Etymology
Latin taedium disgust, irksomeness, from taedēre to disgust, weary