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单词 wearying
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Definition of wearying in English:

wearying

adjective ˈwɪərɪɪŋˈwɪriɪŋ
  • Causing tiredness; tiring.

    a long, wearying journey
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It has been an expensive, laborious and wearying exercise contacting policyholders worldwide and convincing sceptics that demutualisation isn't such a bad idea after all.
    • Sitting cross-legged on the floor felt rather juvenile, but it was less wearying than standing.
    • And while it makes for a fascinating listen, it also makes for a wearying one.
    • The wearying and thankless life of a tour manager was not the life he had hoped for though, so in August 1988 he returned to Australia and found a flat in Melbourne.
    • He writes of his tough young team working long and wearying hours, racing to identify and solve problems, always soliciting opinions from engineers and everyone else involved.
    • And that discussion turns, with wearying repetition, on the ways in which Canadians are not like Americans.

Derivatives

  • wearyingly

  • adverb
    • On first listen it seems wearyingly traditional, raspy and sparse in tasteful, expected ways.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the drawback of this technique is that the two-act work feels wearyingly episodic; so much is compressed or seems not to develop.
      • The production isn't without invention and wit, but tired Canadian in-jokes are wearyingly plentiful, and the scripted ad-libs feel heavily deliberate.
      • The litany of sorrows that afflicts the country is wearyingly familiar.
      • The rest of the album, however, sounds wearyingly familiar - but then again, that's probably why you're buying it.

Definition of wearying in US English:

wearying

adjectiveˈwɪriɪŋˈwirēiNG
  • Causing tiredness; tiring.

    a long, wearying journey
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And that discussion turns, with wearying repetition, on the ways in which Canadians are not like Americans.
    • It has been an expensive, laborious and wearying exercise contacting policyholders worldwide and convincing sceptics that demutualisation isn't such a bad idea after all.
    • He writes of his tough young team working long and wearying hours, racing to identify and solve problems, always soliciting opinions from engineers and everyone else involved.
    • And while it makes for a fascinating listen, it also makes for a wearying one.
    • Sitting cross-legged on the floor felt rather juvenile, but it was less wearying than standing.
    • The wearying and thankless life of a tour manager was not the life he had hoped for though, so in August 1988 he returned to Australia and found a flat in Melbourne.
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