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

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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.

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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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There was an element of excitement in serving moral fiction to unsuspecting listeners, but hoodwinking himself proved a boresome task.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth