boresome

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

French actors seem to be able to come into a room, sit down at a table and talk for half an hour, using almost no gestures, without becoming in the least boresome or monotonous.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen