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boresome

[bawr-suhm, bohr-] / ˈbɔr səm, ˈboʊr- /


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

From Time Magazine Archive

Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Something happened to each—" "Old one," Miotis broke in, "you weary me with these boresome details.

From Once Upon A Planet by Allerton, J. J.




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