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boresome

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


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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

Few others watched the takeoff, for news of new air record-seekers has become boresome even in facilely enthusiastic Texas.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And, not to tire you with long, boresome details, I was lucky.

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by James H. Richardson




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