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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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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Few others watched the takeoff, for news of new air record-seekers has become boresome even in facilely enthusiastic Texas.
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So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome.
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I like serials only if they do not get boresome; and a lot of them do.
From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various