boresome

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

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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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I was pretty certain she thought me a boresome prig, and I determined I'd prove I wasn't.

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy