tedious

Twenty minutes, twenty tedious minutes, passed thus, then ten more, and at last the clock struck the half-hour.

“I’m not feeling well,” said the Scarecrow, with a smile, “for it is very tedious being perched up here night and day to scare away crows.”

Anne had good reason to bless her imagination many a time and oft during the tedious seven weeks that followed.

A new governor arrived; it would have been too tedious to acquire the names of the prisoners; he learned their numbers instead.