boresome

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So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome.

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Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself.

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After the Olympic Torch was extinguished at Los Angeles in 1932, the boresome bickerings began with a meeting of the American Olympic Association to decide whether to send a team to Berlin.

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Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar."

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Miss Ocky had no objection to rows when she could participate in them, but to sit by and listen to others enjoying themselves was merely boresome.

From The Monk of Hambleton by Livingston, Armstrong