as in tired
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted
was sick and tired of wasting her time at long, pointless meetings
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Recent Examples of sick and tired
By that point, however, the players were growing sick and tired of a wildly popular coach who had the full support of GM Bob Gainey, and team owner Tom Hicks.
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Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
He’s got a base, but there are all these polls that show the youth are really sick and tired.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
Aside from the recent results, the Nuggets are just plain sick and tired of Minnesota.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system?
—Sally Pipes, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for sick and tired
Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
He’s got a base, but there are all these polls that show the youth are really sick and tired.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
Aside from the recent results, the Nuggets are just plain sick and tired of Minnesota.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system?
—Sally Pipes, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for sick and tired
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick and tired
Adjective
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For homeowners tired of robotic mowers that demand nearly as much effort as traditional ones, the K1 is a genuine upgrade.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Apr. 2026
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Susan Collins is an anemic and tired candidate.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Like the narrator in the song who’s become bored with his attractive partner, Presley spent several years believing that his relationship with music had lost its spark.—
Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork,
29 Apr. 2026
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Though Ridley Scott works in a drastically different tone than the one John Carpenter brought to Dark Star, the two films share screenwriter Dan O’Bannon’s darkly comedic view of a future that has reduced humans to alternately bored and terrified cogs in larger machines.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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More and more Americans across the spectrum see Netanyahu’s Israel as a spoiled child, and they’re just fed up with it.—
Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
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And hopefully we as a community kind of get fed up together and just get more involved, get more nosy.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems are most likely to get sick from these germs.—
Jonel Aleccia,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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The researchers also hope to test the protocol earlier in pregnancy, before a pregnant person gets seriously sick.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Sick and tired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick%20and%20tired. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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