Wearingly

There is vinegar in her voice; her gestures apart from a wearingly repetitive flinging apart of her arms are pinched. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Factor in the wearingly familiar point about heaps of cash on corporate balance sheets and poor organic-growth prospects, and you might think a deal explosion is on the way. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The climax of The Nice and the Good is one of the most wearingly tense reading experiences available, holding up even to re-reading--and it's a great example of how this novelist of intellect and ideas also knew how to write action; the sheer physicality of some of her climactic scenes is stunning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But now she was looking forward to that day, since trials of will between mistress and servant had become wearingly familiar. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)

For many Filipinos, this bungling is wearingly familiar. ❋ Maria A. Ressa (2010)

The Guardian described Martha Wainwright as "wearingly needy, endlessly self-examining", which gives me a damn good reason not to have anything to do with her, but just look at that picture, would you? ❋ Gordie (2008)

Your remarks are wearingly familiar however and common amongst those who wish to close down legitimate areas of disagreement . ❋ Unknown (2007)

The disillusionment with memory that is everywhere in The Sea, though nowhere polemical or wearingly insistent, is a testament to the fact that – for those for whom the gods have departed – memory has become redemptive. ❋ TEV (2005)

Elspeth had been less confident about the wearingly bubbly TV star going for it, but Teddy reported that she didn't need to be asked twice. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2000)

The trail meandered along the mountain and then plunged steeply, wearingly downward, with never a sprig of grass for the horses, into a dead, skeletal ruin of pine and cedar. ❋ Cherryh, C. J. (1992)

The flickering life in the pale little body she scarcely kept there by the unceasing toil of a pair of bony hands, stitching, stitching, ceaselessly, wearingly on the bands and pockets of pants. ❋ Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1905)

She scarcely kept the flickering life in her pale little body by the unceasing toil of a pair of bony hands, stitching, stitching, ceaselessly, wearingly, on the bands and pockets of trousers. ❋ Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1905)

The stiff-rayed windmill stood like a tall mechanical flower, turning slowly in the light afternoon wind; its faint regular metallic squeak pricked the dry silence wearingly. ❋ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1897)

Unfortunately Bowie: A Biography is wearingly fixated on the singer's early years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The devil, though, is in the detail -- and some of those details are by now becoming wearingly familiar. ❋ Unknown (2010)