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Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome.
It gets tedious, but I get a kick out of doing it that way.
The production of this is always a tedious task.
This method is very tedious in detail.
Exact analysis is difficult and tedious, and consequently the laboratory methods are not employed in technology, where time is an important factor and moderate accuracy is all that is necessary.
This process is a tedious one, and necessarily only gives the average form of thousands of different alternations.
After tedious negotiations he was obliged to yield to the demands of his enemies, and peace was made at Gerstungen in 1074.
Reforms were also made in the tedious technicalities of the feudal law.
These things may have had some effect by way of suggestion; the scryer may have been brought by them into an appropriate frame of mind; but, as a whole, they are tedious and superfluous.
In spite of one or two stirring scenes it is a tedious book, and its personages are little more than machines for the enunciation of the author's opinions and sentiments.
He left Wittenberg in bitterly cold weather on the 23rd of January 1546, and the journey was tedious and hazardous.
The fun ones seemed so stupid, they were pitiful and the smart ones were so tedious, he wanted to scream.
There are some pleasing passages in Arnobius, but on the whole he is a tumid and a tedious author.
In the spring of 1775 Hume was struck with a tedious and harassing though not painful illness.
He deletes what strikes him as irrelevant, or tedious, or uninteresting to his readers.
The weaving of cotton cloth is principally carried on by women; and the process, at least for the finer description, is tedious in the extreme.
The method, though tedious in operation, is very accurate, and is largely employed for determining the magnetic quality of bars intended to serve .as standards.
The collection of sarsaparilla root is a very tedious business; a single root takes an Indian half a day or sometimes even a day and a half to unearth.
The search for appropriate luggage was tedious.
For some, this task can be messy or tedious.
Those tedious and exhausting wars did not prevent Peter from attending to internal affairs, and he displayed as a reformer even more vigour and tenacity than as a general in Greats the field.
As tedious as a nagging toothache, the myth is endlessly repeated.
The wet refining process is more tedious and expensive, and is only exceptionally employed, as in the case of preparing the pure metal or its salts for pharmaceutical or chemical purposes.
Maybe just a proof of concept, that'd be the most fun, running all the way gets tedious.
Reporting fraud is a tedious process, so focus on protecting yourself.
Time consuming and tedious though this project may be, it will make all the difference in the world to your finished product.
They are not a very good option for a workday at the office because daily application can be tedious and, though most formulas claim to be smudge free, they can often wear off on clothes.
Shah Jahan had four sons, whose fratricidal wars for the succession during their father's lifetime it would be tedious to dwell upon.
This is a tedious and expensive process, and hence the importance of sowing the crop on land as free as possible from weeds of all kinds.
Polybius was arrested with 1000 of the principal Achaeans, but, while his companions were condemned to a tedious incarceration in the country towns of Italy, he obtained permission to reside in Rome.
Although it makes for tedious reading, it's important to read over the terms and conditions before applying.
While possible, just be warned it can be a tedious process that may not be worth the time spent just to save two or three dollars.
Take a tedious chore and make it quick and simple with the help of a makeup remover cloth.
However, if you have photos that feature several different people, you'll need to come up with a good system for determining how to file each layout in order to avoid the tedious job of scrapping the same picture for more than one album.
For the bride and groom, repeating all of the details over and over again can be tedious.
Making your own cards may seem tedious, but in the end, your wallet will thank you.
Alcoholics fear that life without drinking will be awful, grim, boring, dull, or tedious.
This makes the application review process more tedious and may create ill will on the part of committee members.
Many traditional plus size retailers carry up to 3x or 4x, but anything larger than that is a bit more tedious to find.
The run-and-gun style gets tedious after the first level, and there's absolutely nothing thrown in the mix to make you come back for more.
The sound effects tend to get a little tedious over time.
It's a tedious process to backup your own game cartridges, and with the online availability of all those NDS Roms, it made more sense for DS and DSi owners to simply download off the Internet.
They are useful and not tedious because they vary greatly and splattered throughout the game in a sensible fashion.
It encourages players to play Soul Caliber 2 on their own more than the previous version, but some of the missions were a bit tedious; for example, fighting a match where gale force winds were trying to push you away from your opponent.
A tester has to have the patience of Job, willing to spend hours picking at a game environment, or days checking every level and every space of a game for the same tedious graphical flaw.
Enabling a cheat can be ridiculously easy or it can require hours and hours of tedious effort.
You can only move one app at a time and this can become a tedious process if you have dozens of apps to move, but it helps that you do not need a computer in order to organize the various iPhone apps that you have.
Oral food challenges with foods are more tedious than inhalation testing, since full passage through the digestive system may take a day or more.
This process, which is known as a diagnosis of exclusion, can be tedious, expensive, exhausting, and involve almost every system in the body.
This was, of course, tedious, time consuming, and insane because there is no reason not to wash them in cool water.
When a loved one dies, disposing of his or her personal property can be a tedious yet emotional task.