boresome

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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?

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

My protests, as always, proving futile, I spent a very boresome time flying backandforth over the same patch of ground.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward