tedious
adjective
marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome.
tediously
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a word derived from
tedious.
Example Sentences
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"Playing DDR is always fun for me," he told BBC News, "so this challenge was best described as tediously joyful".
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
But absent a dedicated desire to solve them, they could be viewed as tediously boring compared to leading the nation on sweeping national issues and global diplomacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024
Lipa’s particularly good at editing, he adds, at tediously working and reworking a chorus or melody.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
A funeral hymn made its way around the church tediously but successfully.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
