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wearying

  • present participle
    of weary.
    weary
    adjective
    physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired.
  • a word derived from weary.
    weary
    adjective
    physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired.

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Bram, his husband, has a demanding job at a museum in Rotterdam and Arnold’s bitterness has grown wearying.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

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

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

Dewey, for example, had spent two wearying and wasted days trying to trace that phantom pair, the Mexicans sworn by Paul Helm to have visited Mr. Clutter on the eve of the murders.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote