boresome

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Denver, socially boresome classmates formerly referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Something happened to each—" "Old one," Miotis broke in, "you weary me with these boresome details.

From Once Upon A Planet by Allerton, J. J.