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
People are a little bit sick and tired of being sick and tired, to quote the great civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer.
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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
The American people are sick and tired of this endless debt increasing.
—ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
Maybe by now Republicans are sick and tired of losing.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
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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
The American people are sick and tired of this endless debt increasing.
—ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
Maybe by now Republicans are sick and tired of losing.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
See all Example Sentences for sick and tired
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick and tired
Adjective
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In difficult listening situations, participants described feeling physically and mentally tired.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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But towards the end of the day, when everyone is sufficiently tired out, Webb says there's nothing better than sitting down and winding down together.Alyce Collins, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Some of the crypto jokes are dated, but that’s preferable to bored apes still being in the news.Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Experienced DJs can tell when people are bored or there is low energy.Baruch Labunski, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The mayor’s critics, who seized on higher crime rates in 2023 to pursue the recall, have suggested that more recent declines are a reflection of voters being too fed up with the city’s notoriously slow 911 response to report actual crimes.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Frontline workers are fed up Keeping the customer satisfied has proven to not always be that satisfying.Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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All but one of those patients had been exposed to sick cattle or poultry on farms.Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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There is no cure for a sick heart, definitely not in Ferrante’s universe, where desire burns down to an ember that lingers, waiting to be fanned and catch fire.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Sick and tired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick%20and%20tired. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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