tedious

So, speaking of robots, there’s always this discussion about automation in the work that robots can do instead of people, specifically those “tedious tasks,” that allow humans to do more creative work.

In one particularly telling scene, Jobs walks into a bay where his employees are tediously working away.

A Walmart has 140,000 SKUs, which have to be tediously sorted, replaced on shelves, reordered, delivered, and so forth.

To make the images print-ready, H.A. tediously redrew his watercolor images as color separations, layer by layer.

I remember myself—as a sort of anti-climax to that—rather tediously asking my way home.

The next three days passed slowly and tediously for most of the guests assembled at Grey Abbey.

The first were egotistic, the second wholly unjudicial, the third laboriously and tediously reminiscent.

A frail old woman, moving tediously, ushered him into the hall, shading her weak eyes while she awaited his errand.

The list of magical superstitions that have retained a hold among us would be found tediously long.