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Meanings of wearisome in English

So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness.

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Usage of wearisome in English
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Reshaping your mind and learning so much history is a wearisome process.
Mentats of Dune
2
The wicked were to expiate their crimes by ages of wearisome labor.
History of the Conquest of Peru
3
PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
The Devil's Dictionary
4
There is an arenaceous quality in the style which makes progress wearisome.
Among My Books. Second Series
5
But the doubt made his sojourn in Ireland very wearisome to him.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
6
As taught in many schools she thought it was a wearisome subject.
Monitress Merle
7
He will repeat this adage until it becomes wearisome in its monotony.
My Native Land / The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, a...
8
After another wearisome day aboard those unspeakable box-cars, I reached the base.
S.O.S. Stand to!
9
After a certain time, riding in the steam cars grew very wearisome.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's
10
It would also be the repetition of a worn-out and wearisome story.
A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
11
But the end result was the same: a tense and wearisome silence.
Before you know kindness
12
The moral effect of being without a settled abode is very wearisome.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
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But a landowner never finds the days wearisome-hehas not the time.
Dead Souls
14
Talk of Babs is greeted with wearisome looks around the Offaly camp.
The Irish Times
15
After wearisome discussion, the answer to the royal letter was decided on.
The Beginnings of New England / Or the Puritan Theocracy in its ...
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Moreover the place is wearisome, and I am fanciful and often ill-humoured.
Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare