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boresome

[bawr-suhm, bohr-] / ˈbɔr səm, ˈboʊr- /


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

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

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

It is trying so hard to maintain its reputation for this gift, that sooner or later, it becomes obnoxious and boresome: How do you get that way?

From Time Magazine Archive

But I do know that a person who claims to be educated, and who has never travelled abroad, is insufferably boresome.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby




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