repetitious

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  1. adjective Filled with repetition, especially needless or tedious repetition.

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  • 'At the risk of sounding repetitious, let's start again. —  dummy1
  • Its arrangement is somewhat confused and repetitious, some points are over-elaborated, but on the whole he deals very successfully with most of the evidence given against him and exposes the unquestionable weakness of the Crown case. —  A Book of Remarkable Criminals
  • They became deeply repetitious, generally about a love for an inanimate object, animal, or a breakfast spread (for the love of God, no one introduce Vegemite to her). —  FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
  • Making producers of legal adult material keep additional, repetitious, and often massively overlapping records of performers in the productions won't save a single child from harm. —  Techdirt
  • The interview itself, by Australian journalist Rodney Gedda, was a long and technically interesting, if somewhat repetitious, article on Computerworld but the so-called journalists at Slashdot, bad spelling, poor grammar and all, knew exactly which aspect would appeal to the testosterone-charged bunch of lemmings who constitute their immature readership. —  iTWire - Latest Headlines
 

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/rɛpəˈtɪʃəs/
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