Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as to cause fatigue; tiresomely: as, the road is fatiguingly steep and difficult.
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- adverb In a
fatiguing manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Palestinians will then have the one state solution they so fatiguingly crave.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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The Palestinians will then have the one state solution they so fatiguingly crave.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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Shipwreck, as an island girl, she could accept, as she could martyrdom by snakes, but the angels seemed fatiguingly presumptuous.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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Shipwreck, as an island girl, she could accept, as she could martyrdom by snakes, but the angels seemed fatiguingly presumptuous.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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The Misses Blair had been so fatiguingly polite on her arrival.
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He stalked fatiguingly about the countryside in search of his parishioners, and his parishioners were suspicious of him and disliked his fierce, thrusting nose, and he returned from them embittered with them and hating them.
This Freedom 1925
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Her small straw hat, wreathed fatiguingly in roses, clung desperately to her head in the awkward way German women have of wearing headgear, and made her, despite her blossom-like attractiveness, seem quaint and so truly German like the rest.
Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906
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In spite of all the characters being rather fatiguingly virtuous in their sentiments, it is full of life, and not without gracefulness and charm.
Latin Literature 1902
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For my part, if Sir Lionel weren't up to such a fatiguingly high level of intelligence, I believe I could fall in love with him.
Set in Silver 1901
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There was nothing fatiguingly ethereal about Tishy anyhow; she was just about as good-looking a girl as he had ever met in his life.
Mount Music Martin Ross 1888
hernesheir commented on the word fatiguingly
This word looks funny to me because my eyes want my mouth to pronounce the back end "gwingly" while my head protests then says "No."
November 5, 2011