"tedious waiting" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a long, drawn-out, and ultimately boring waiting period. For example, "We had to endure tedious waiting to see if the plane would take off on time."
Sipping elegantly on a glass makes the endless tedious waiting around while trying to get WiFi reception before the shows start almost pleasant.
That means it's less of a cutthroat competition, and it doesn't come with any tedious waiting.
But even on a hefty broadband connection it can become very tedious waiting for some sites to load.
After all, who wouldn't want to be able to get from Point a to Point B without all the tedious waiting in lines, sitting in traffic, and shoving through crowds that comes with travel through the physical world?
Mid-movie, I start to recall all the tedious waiting around on set, actors scrolling on their phones in between takes, stunt-doubles milling about – the banal stuff you don't see in the final polished product.
The work is gritty, sometimes just tedious waiting and often discomfiting.
There's no tedious wait for the superhero powers to show up.
At a police station, where he endures long, tedious waits, he is eventually informed that Sara was accidentally shot to death in the crossfire between the police and protesters at a political rally that is sporadically heard in the background.
There was no tedious wait for the check, no need to calculate a tip or make sure I signed the merchant copy of the receipt instead of the customer copy.
The following will undoubtedly afford endless amusement during the tedious waits until you gain your seat, and if enterprising managers know what they're about they will ask the ushers, doormen, etc., to cooperate with you in every way while playing.
After a slow, tedious wait at the de facto border (one guard tells me it is the first time he has ever seen an Iraqi passport, let alone 43) the team travels past snow-capped mountains, swaths of lush green forest and the overgrown ruins of a past, forgotten conflict.
