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- adverb In a
wearing (tiring) manner
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Examples
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Factor in the wearingly familiar point about heaps of cash on corporate balance sheets and poor organic-growth prospects, and you might think a deal explosion is on the way.
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There is vinegar in her voice; her gestures apart from a wearingly repetitive flinging apart of her arms are pinched.
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The climax of The Nice and the Good is one of the most wearingly tense reading experiences available, holding up even to re-reading--and it's a great example of how this novelist of intellect and ideas also knew how to write action; the sheer physicality of some of her climactic scenes is stunning.
Plot and thought 2010
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But now she was looking forward to that day, since trials of will between mistress and servant had become wearingly familiar.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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For many Filipinos, this bungling is wearingly familiar.
Noynoy Flunks His First Test Maria A. Ressa 2010
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The Guardian described Martha Wainwright as "wearingly needy, endlessly self-examining", which gives me a damn good reason not to have anything to do with her, but just look at that picture, would you?
A Rush of Blood to the Head Gordie 2008
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The Guardian described Martha Wainwright as "wearingly needy, endlessly self-examining", which gives me a damn good reason not to have anything to do with her, but just look at that picture, would you?
Archive 2008-05-01 Gordie 2008
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Your remarks are wearingly familiar however and common amongst those who wish to close down legitimate areas of disagreement .
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The disillusionment with memory that is everywhere in The Sea, though nowhere polemical or wearingly insistent, is a testament to the fact that – for those for whom the gods have departed – memory has become redemptive.
FRIDAY GRAB BAG TEV 2005
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Elspeth had been less confident about the wearingly bubbly TV star going for it, but Teddy reported that she didn't need to be asked twice.
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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