boresome
Example Sentences
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After the Olympic Torch was extinguished at Los Angeles in 1932, the boresome bickerings began with a meeting of the American Olympic Association to decide whether to send a team to Berlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
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?
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
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."
From Time Magazine Archive
It would be too dreary and boresome for me in my grave.
From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold
