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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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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Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself.

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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?

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Letters that don't matter, letters from the insignificant and the boresome, simply aren't answered.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 by Various