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We had to listen to the usual wearisome complaints.
Her stories can get a little wearisome.
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Every supernatural series, from Midnight Mass to Yellowjackets, needs a character resistant to the show’s inner eeriness to deliver persistent conflict, and Eion Bailey and his great head of hair played amusement-park engineer Jim with the exact right amount of wearisome square-mindedness.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
The slow, wearisome trudge towards Everton’s new dawn continues.
—Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
But overall, the lack of differentiation can be wearisome.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
But the escalating conversations, often accompanied by astonishment, concerning women's looks, youth and ageing reflect a wearisome pattern deeply ingrained in both the entertainment industry and society as a whole — a pattern of entrenched ageism.
—Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 14 May 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
The slow, wearisome trudge towards Everton’s new dawn continues.
—Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
But overall, the lack of differentiation can be wearisome.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
But the escalating conversations, often accompanied by astonishment, concerning women's looks, youth and ageing reflect a wearisome pattern deeply ingrained in both the entertainment industry and society as a whole — a pattern of entrenched ageism.
—Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 14 May 2024
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“Wearisome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wearisome. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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wearisome
adjective
wea·ri·some
ˈwir-ē-səm 
: causing weariness : tiresome
a wearisome lecture
wearisomely
adverb
wearisomeness
noun
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