crashing bore
Example Sentences
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It “was a crashing bore and a terrible chore, until one day when I was cast as the girl with the mandolin in ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ” she told the Times in 1981.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2021
At the start of the song he’s a crashing bore, spewing out dismal platitudes such as: “We’re all the same when we go.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2018
Because the film that bears his name is ultimately a frightful, crashing bore.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
But like those homicidal charmers his Duke of Gloucester is also so intelligent that the world is a crashing bore for him unless he stirs up trouble.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
He was "wrapped in literary and historical imaginings," and he was also a crashing bore.
From Time Magazine Archive
