They also dutifully held regular receptions, called levees, stuffy and tedious affairs.

If we can't enjoy our essential tools, life becomes a grey and tedious affair.

How to go about getting this work published would prove to be a tedious affair.

Since battery tests are tedious affairs, I decided to torture the thing until it tapped out.

Donna's convalescence was a tedious affair and not a very happy one.

Classical breeding can be a long and tedious affair.

Unfortunately this tedious affair has been given in my honor.

Waiting for a ship might be a tedious affair, for Twofold Bay is not much frequented.

Such a "bounded indirection" is a laborious, tedious affair.

It was a tedious affair and Blackthorne was sorry he had agreed to it, for there were more important things to do before dusk.