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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Lewis promptly obliged: "I denounce Mr. Bernard DeVoto as a fool and a tedious and egotistical fool." he wrote, "as a liar and a pompous and boresome liar."

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

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The twins, having completed what had been for them a daring undertaking, now looked about for release from an atmosphere grown suddenly boresome.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)