1. On the contrary, a tiresomely active one.

2. She is a tiresomely larger-than-life figure who drinks a lot of champagne and believes things should be done right.

3. The passage was tiresomely padded out with references to the author's fashionable friends.

4. British chancellors tiresomely wont to lecture finance ministers in mainland Europe about their superior policies.

5. The excitement over her arrival was tiresomely predictable – like flashing a shiny object at a child.

6. I determined they should come about as they pleased for me; and though it was a tiresomely slow process, I began to rejoice at length in a faint dawn of its progress: as I thought at first.

7. Whatever I did, that idea would bother me: it was so tiresomely pertinacious that I resolved on requesting leave to go to Wuthering Heights, and assist in the last duties to the dead.