You will find few Americans who would consider his tedious duty at a tiny outpost their idea of fun.
Tedious military duties under Hadrian's reign are recounted with faltering formalism.
Their special privilege is to peacock about in coloured waistcoats – and for this, they will dutifully and without pay perform tedious prison-trusty duties such as spending hours in the rain on Windsor bridge preventing younger boys sneaking to the pub.
Grand jury duty is longer and more tedious than normal jury duty.
Several of the essayists describe their duties as tedious but the implications as profound.
Shivering in my summer-weight parka — a last-minute purchase — I realized how tedious a tour of duty on these barren earthworks must have been.
Other aspects of his duties were also tedious.
All the heavy-duty assessment makes the process tedious rather than liberating.
However, textural analyses of ash grains has remained a long and tedious task that made such approaches inappropriate for eruption surveillance duties.
Our president is stuck with too many ceremonial duties as head of state, such as greeting ambassadors and holding tedious state dinners, that divert attention from solving problems.
But "I found it utterly tedious to have to conform to the doctrine that it is the duty of the opposition to oppose".
