exhausting
adjective
producing or tending to produce fatigue, weariness, or the like.
exhaustingly
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a word derived from
exhausting.
Example Sentences
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The other notable character is the Arbiter, who functions primarily, and exhaustingly, as narrator, portrayed with brittle humor by Bryce Pinkham.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian gave the film one star, calling it an "exhaustingly awful reboot".
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025
Fincher and Walker eschew the fantastical exaggerations of franchises like “John Wick” and “The Mechanic” in favor of plainer costumes, weapons and scenarios, intending to capture this hired gunman’s exhaustingly obsessive nature.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Maupin acknowledges that childlike characters are difficult to pull off because they can come across as exhaustingly chaotic or cloyingly sentimental — a common criticism of the Pee-wee Herman character from those who weren't fans.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2023
And so I treated the swearing-in ceremony like it was a movie with an exhaustingly slow build and an anticlimactic ending.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
