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wearying

  • present participle of weary.
  • a word derived from weary.

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For 35 years, Mr. Self has continued in a similar vein, dazzling and sometimes wearying his readers with his madcap plots and lexical pyrotechnics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

It's a wearying cycle of failure from a team that's still stymied by its own weak psychology.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

But everyone is going through something difficult in “Cordially,” and the lack of, well, cordiality can be wearying.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025

It made parenting less wearying when I could flick through my kids’ toy catalogs, searching for the toys I wanted.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2024

‘No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien