The phrase "almost tedious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly boring or monotonous, but not quite to the point of being completely dull.
Example: "The lecture was almost tedious, but a few interesting anecdotes kept the audience engaged."
Alternatives: "nearly boring" or "borderline monotonous".
And while the action begins cartoonish, inside a rubber square that looks like a boxing ring, it ends in a deliberate, almost tedious rhythm.
But that was before the air was shattered by the mention of virginity in "The Moon Is Blue". For the past 10 years, the once-unmentionable has been discussed at almost tedious length in films.
The adjective Orwellian is used with almost tedious repetitiveness in Western media descriptions of North Korea, but it is a good one.Finally we arrive at the 47-storey Yanggakdo Hotel on an island in the city's Taedong River deliberately chosen (it would seem) by the authorities because of its remoteness from any populated neighbourhood.
By contrast, the current menu is written in almost tedious English ("spaghettini with Chesapeake Bay Scallops and Sacramento River Delta Crayfish, Chardonnay Cream sauce, roasted red and yellow peppers, baby asparagus and Lake Superior Golden Caviar").
The dialogue is perfunctory, almost tedious: the recitation of how an 8-year-old girl killed a cat, of how a man got smushed under a truck; requests for tea, for meals, as communicated via a dumb waiter that, given its context, reads more like a guillotine.
Parsing was almost insufferably tedious.
Here's another thing: the working weeks of most MPs are long, relentless and almost unimaginably tedious.
His poems are virtually untranslatable and depend for their effectiveness on an almost unbearably tedious repetition of guttural sounds.
Fabio Capello replied to complaints that life in England's high veld training base at the last World Cup was almost exquisitely tedious.
By now, it is an established rite of spring, one that is almost as tedious as Albany's missing yet another budget deadline.
Sitting in my usual spot at the usual Super Bowl party last night, my long-time sofa neighbor — a sports nut who worked for years in television, and has seen some seventeen or so Super Bowls live (almost as tedious as watching them in France, he assures me) — announced bluntly that he had "given up on the game, just as with boxing".
