tedium

The work is ceaseless and routine to the point of tedium—and almost half of primary-care physicians are burnt out.

What is it about bleakness and tedium that are so attractive, other than the fact that most people instinctively recoil from it?

A third night in hospital for Kate tonight, but the tedium was relieved by a visit from brother James and sister Pippa.

He advised diners to flee “right back out the door … you will be spared an infinitely larger measure of tedium.”

Since I loathe the tedium of gym workouts, I take breaks for tennis with my eclectic group of tennis pals.

Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.

Everything that wealth and loving care could secure was provided by Bruce to lessen the tedium of the journey.

Idleness is the friend of love; and passengers have little or nothing to do to while away the tedium of a voyage.

He then begged the patriarch to give him some books to copy, to rid himself of the tedium of his idleness.

I certainly do not believe that the Martians are subjected to the tedium of walking.