aburrido
tedious ; deadly ; drab ; stodgy ; unexciting ; uninteresting ; wearisome ; weary ; bored ; boring ; wearying ; dreary ; uninspiring ; unmoving ; dull ; cut and dried [cut and dry] ; drearily.
In other places too many references could make for a very tedious search.
Some authors, of course, object to their work being subjected to compulsory dissection for exams in the traditional deadly manner and like Bernard Shaw, they swear to haunt anyone who so mistreats them (Shaw's ghost must be busy these days).
Have reading foisted on you as a duty, a task to be put up with, from which you expect no delight, and it can appear a drab business gladly to be given up.
One could easily prefer the convenience of the stodgy single-volume work.
The author argues that the advantages for higher education are unclear, and rather unexciting.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
The earliest binding machines replaced the wearisome hand-beating of the sheets in order to fold them.
Humanity is returning to the downsized, reengineered, total quality management weary business world.
One should answer the telephone clearly and pleasantly - not in a bored voice or in slurred haste.
This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
A new wave of books dealing frankly with such concerns as sex, alcoholism and broken homes was seen as a breakthrough, but plots and styles have begun to show a wearying sameness.
The city was considered to be seedy (decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
Though the novel begins like a house ablaze, it later thickens slightly into an acceptable if uninspiring finale.
The outcome is strangely unmoving.
These librarians are given Haykin upon the day of their arrival and are expected to read the entire dull document and use it as a guideline in establishing subject headings.
I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Quite apart from anything else, it is drearily boring, the tedium exacerbated by the grating monotony of Stein's voice.
cuando el diablo está aburrido mata moscas con el rabo
idle hands are the devil's workshop/tools/playground
The saying the 'idle hands are the devil's workshop' may be particularly apt in the case of Islamic rioters and terrorists.
de forma aburrida
dully
I was vexed by the dullness of his proceedings at work and though he understands it he does many things by rote, and very dully.
de manera aburrida
dully
I was vexed by the dullness of his proceedings at work and though he understands it he does many things by rote, and very dully.
de un modo aburrido y pesado
tediously
ponderously
boringly
Bibliographers, like other scholars, have to be able to think logically, to judge critically, and to persevere in tediously repetitive tasks.
However, his use of a remorselessly chronological approach yields a narrative that is often bitty, sometimes ponderously plodding.
Everything that happens in the couple's tiny, shrunken, enclosed world is addictive, unglamorous, and boringly awful.
día aburrido
dull day
A child may find through reading a book that a dull day is transformed because he has met a talking pig and a spider that can write in 'Charlotte's Web'.
estar aburrido como una ostra
be bored stiff
Instead of spending hours being bored stiff in church, most families spend Christmas with family and loved-ones or are still recovering from the hangover .
lo aburrido
dullness
I was vexed by the dullness of his proceedings at work and though he understands it he does many things by rote, and very dully.
