tedium

Then there’s the part about his life-threatening activism, a tale that starts and ends this book …And so, beware at the unevenness of this memoir, but understand that the tedium doesn’t linger.
‘Two Omars’ is uneven, but remarkable memoir|Terri Schlichenmeyer|October 9, 2021|Washington Blade
It keeps getting uttered out loud by players and coaches even in a sport languishing in the boredom of boardrooms and the tedium of mergers and acquisitions.
The capital of love — and college football — will be at Iowa State this Saturday|Chuck Culpepper|September 10, 2021|Washington Post
If we want to make progress, that requires the kind of persistence and tedium that is not glamorous.
Why it took 100 years for America to learn about the Tulsa massacre|Fabiola Cineas|May 30, 2021|Vox
If you’re like most Americans, the past year has been a time of fear, anxiety and often profound tedium—but also of worsening dietary habits.
All Over the U.S., People Have Gained Weight During the COVID-19 Pandemic|Jeffrey Kluger|March 24, 2021|Time

Getting shots to more people would bring a quicker end to the tedium.
Why kids matter in the quest to stamp out COVID-19|WIRED|January 31, 2021|Ars Technica
The work is ceaseless and routine to the point of tedium—and almost half of primary-care physicians are burnt out.
Nurse Practitioners Playing Doctor More Often|Daniela Drake|May 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What is it about bleakness and tedium that are so attractive, other than the fact that most people instinctively recoil from it?
Why All the Hate for Les Mis?|Megan McArdle|January 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A third night in hospital for Kate tonight, but the tedium was relieved by a visit from brother James and sister Pippa.
Pippa Middleton Visits Kate|Tom Sykes|December 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He advised diners to flee “right back out the door … you will be spared an infinitely larger measure of tedium.”
Guy Fieri Battles Scathing New York Times Review by Pete Wells|Katie Baker|November 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Since I loathe the tedium of gym workouts, I take breaks for tennis with my eclectic group of tennis pals.
How I Write: Erik Larson Revisits ‘Isaac’s Storm’|Noah Charney|October 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.
The Daisy Chain|Charlotte Yonge
Everything that wealth and loving care could secure was provided by Bruce to lessen the tedium of the journey.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral|John Dunloe Carteret
Idleness is the friend of love; and passengers have little or nothing to do to while away the tedium of a voyage.
Newton Forster|Captain Frederick Marryat
He then begged the patriarch to give him some books to copy, to rid himself of the tedium of his idleness.
Fox's Book of Martyrs|John Foxe
I certainly do not believe that the Martians are subjected to the tedium of walking.
Pharaoh's Broker|Ellsworth Douglass

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tedium

/ (ˈtiːdɪəm) /

noun

the state of being bored or the quality of being boring; monotony

Word Origin for tedium

C17: from Latin taedium, from taedēre to weary

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