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

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

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We have this year helped to shatter the foolish fetichism which restricts the average official organ to a boresome and needless display of facts and figures, relating to the political mechanism of amateurdom.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)