boresome

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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Miss Ocky had no objection to rows when she could participate in them, but to sit by and listen to others enjoying themselves was merely boresome.

From The Monk of Hambleton by Livingston, Armstrong