as in tired
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted
was sick and tired of wasting her time at long, pointless meetings
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Recent Examples of sick and tired
Robinson, for one, was sick and tired of losing.
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Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2022
Many young people in Cuba are sick and tired of the dictatorship — even more sick and tired, possibly, than the old people are.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 June 2022
People are a little bit sick and tired of being sick and tired, to quote the great civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer.
—CBS News, 7 June 2020
Fans and other artists soon began rallying around her, illustrating how sick and tired many people of dealing with homophobic tirades and close-minded crybabies — a hopeful sign that the genre is evolving.
—Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022
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Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2022
Many young people in Cuba are sick and tired of the dictatorship — even more sick and tired, possibly, than the old people are.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 June 2022
People are a little bit sick and tired of being sick and tired, to quote the great civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer.
—CBS News, 7 June 2020
Fans and other artists soon began rallying around her, illustrating how sick and tired many people of dealing with homophobic tirades and close-minded crybabies — a hopeful sign that the genre is evolving.
—Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick and tired
Adjective
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Markets grow tired of tariff changes U.S. stocks tumbled Thursday on tariff flip-flop fatigue.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
7 Mar. 2025
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Sleep deprivation comes with real costs Chronic sleep deprivation does more than leave people tired.—
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Terry Hall’s voice was crucial; his vocals were often recorded in two separate takes, one bored and one angry, which were then mixed together.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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And in another filmed short, original cast member Laraine Newman’s nostalgic return to Studio 8H was accompanied by Pete Davidson’s bored, dim Chad.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Many of these new candidates will be ordinary citizens who are fed up with the feckless and do-nothing politics of the Democratic establishment.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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Related article Americans are getting fed up with the economy.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Measles is an infection that can make even healthy children very sick.—
Brenda Goodman and Neha Mukherjee,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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Less than 10 minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets from his sniper’s perch into a crowd of many thousands of people.—
TIME Staff,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Sick and tired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick%20and%20tired. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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