tedious

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: A confession is in order here: I did find the last few score pages rather tedious.

Modifies a noun

• dimwit: Of course, Nikki will be voted back in, but she was voted out fair and square because she is a tedious dimwit!
• repetition: However, I do not want to burden the Committee with a tedious repetition of the general points that arise under both amendments.
• waiting: I will also discuss timescales and the contrast between initial frantic flat searching with tedious waiting for completion.
• task: Filling in all the forms is Pete's current tedious task.
• journey: A long detour around the Birdwood Road estate can make for a very tedious journey.
• calculation: Using Maple has particular advantages: There is no longer a need to do tedious calculations by hand.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: He referred him to the rather tedious answers we tended to give in these situations.
• somewhat: This somewhat tedious process guards against the accidental deletion of large numbers of records.
• incredibly: But this transformation becomes incredibly tedious as the same cut scene is repeated every time.
• extremely: Of course, the question of authenticity is an extremely tedious one.
• pretty: In all honesty, the killings are actually pretty tedious!
• slightly: Washing Dishes by Hand Washing dishes by hand is not really a very complex task, just slightly tedious.

Preposition: after

• while: They are extremely talented musically, but their songs are somewhat dodgy and get tedious after a while.

Infinitive complement

• read: These chapters, stuffed full of tables and statistical results, are a bit tedious to read, and perhaps could have been shortened.
• write: In the preceding example you might feel that it's tedious to write out all of those instanceof expressions, and you're right.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Perhaps the main revelation was how, with the benefit of hindsight, the whole Doherty saga seems so damn tedious.
• become: Low budget nonsense that becomes too tedious to even be unintentionally funny.
• get: Maybe just a proof of concept, that'd be the most fun, running all the way gets tedious.

Preposition: in

• extreme: However, such an approach would have been tedious in the extreme to read.