boresome
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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
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
They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I warn you that your guests may be boresome; however, have it your own way," Albert's uncle said; and he went off to write the invitation to tea to the Maidstone Antiquities.
From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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