boresome

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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When he thought that the explanation of some invention would be boresome, he put a little note at the foot of the page.

From Astounding Stories, August, 1931 by Various