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Synonyms for tiresome
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : tahyuhr-suhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtaɪər səm |
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Définition of tiresome
Origin :- "tedious," c.1500, from tire (v.) + -some (1). Related: Tiresomely; tiresomeness.
- adj irritating, exasperating
- What a tiresome time we shall have to-morrow, when the Frenchmen are gone!
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- And now, after what I fear has been a tiresome enough prologue, my story awaits.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- Nothing is so tiresome to a man of any taste or abilities as what every body knows.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Roland Barnette's always walked home with me, but I think he's just tiresome.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Her Sunday-school class had never been so tiresome nor so soaked in hair-oil.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- The one announces no tedious waits; the other no tiresome measures.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870 » by Various
- All this may be vastly right—it is a pity it is so tiresome.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- I am detained in town by provoking, tiresome, but necessary business.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- But Arthur had really been very inconsiderate and tiresome so far.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- I know the whole proceeding by heart already—that is what is so tiresome!
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
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