boresome
Example Sentences
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Few others watched the takeoff, for news of new air record-seekers has become boresome even in facilely enthusiastic Texas.
From Time Magazine Archive
They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar."
From Time Magazine Archive
There was an element of excitement in serving moral fiction to unsuspecting listeners, but hoodwinking himself proved a boresome task.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe
