ennuied

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Becoming ennuied with these proceedings, after much entreaty and a glass of wine, they consented to give me an idea of surf-swimming.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

The ennuied Count Rosal lunched with them,—a sallow, fatigued young patrician who wore a pince-nez.

From The Game and the Candle by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

The idle are the most miserable—and none are more miserable in their ever-recurring ennuied hours, than your fashionable idlers.

From The Allen House by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

It may be remembered that M. France also wrote that pastel of irony The Procurator of Judea, in which Pontius Pilate is shown in his old age, rich, ennuied, sick.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

And he says too that, "The educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuied for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance of it all."

From Escape, and Other Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher