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ennui
noun as in boredom
Example Sentences
Overall, Twentysomethings is maybe the tidiest portrayal of millennial ennui I’ve seen on television in a while.
Like the original settlers, my mother and her peers journeyed west expecting to find themselves—or at the very least, freedom from the suburban ennui of middle-class Midwestern life.
Bored teenagers dealing with the world at large may have more devices in-hand now, but that tumult of emotions and ennui remains the same.
We meet characters who are going about their days and feeling, you know, normal levels of ennui.
Historically, with the possible exception of cars, Americans have approached made-in-America shopping with a large degree of ennui.
Consumed and eventually disgorged, Pierre is restored to his loving parents, his ennui banished.
The Great American Novel became more concerned with sexual shenanigans and suburban ennui, or rehashing World War II.
Even with all her comforts and a constant, tugging ennui, Mei knows the risks that she faces as an ernai.
The shenanigans of Intimacy will shake any jaded theater fan from nudity ennui.
Gabe tried to kick his postmodern, adolescent sense of ennui (a “lame” feeling) through members of the opposite sex (“dames”).
It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
It combats ennui, lassitude, and intolerable vacuity, soothing the nerves and diverting attention from self.
The sight of them not only fills me with ennui, but I have no intention of presenting your comic papers with material.
She's handsome yet, but her muscles are getting that loose look and her eyes are bottomless pits of ennui.
Ennui is a word one hears constantly; if it rains toute le monde est triste.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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