adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
rather
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Some people are natural bargainers and others find the whole process rather tedious .
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In order to use them, however, they require a rather tedious peeling process.
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She was just going to be rather tedious from now on.
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One reaction to this style is that it is merely game-playing, and rather tedious at that.
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This makes the essential continual small power changes rather tedious .
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It's really becoming rather tedious .
very
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Life is going to be very tedious this year, I can see.
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Although this may seem a very tedious way to go about things, it is the only sure method of success.
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They are then very tedious to clean.
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It also became a very tedious place, since you can scarcely blow your nose there without going through a security check.
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It makes shopping very tedious and I find myself for ever returning clothes.
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The snag about recording is that an enormous amount of material is produced which is very tedious to analyse.
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Don't be afraid to use cut and sew for necklines, as these are very tedious to shape on the machine.
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This is all becoming very tedious .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a tedious lecture
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Doing all those calculations without a computer would be extremely tedious .
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It was one of the most tedious plays I've ever had to sit through.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bullens Creek had started off tiny and tedious and gone downhill from there.
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But because this group of people is isolated, the routines may assume a particularly tedious , inexorable character.
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But he had come to find her tedious .
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In order to use them, however, they require a rather tedious peeling process.
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In truth, she found watching the endless circuiting a little tedious and especially when there was no one to talk to.
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It would be tedious to recapitulate the substance of Addison's tributes.
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The very rigid structure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans, but we are not meant to be reading it.