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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Lewis promptly obliged: "I denounce Mr. Bernard DeVoto as a fool and a tedious and egotistical fool." he wrote, "as a liar and a pompous and boresome liar."

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In Denver, socially boresome classmates formerly referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff.

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We have this year helped to shatter the foolish fetichism which restricts the average official organ to a boresome and needless display of facts and figures, relating to the political mechanism of amateurdom.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)