boresome

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So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome.

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Few others watched the takeoff, for news of new air record-seekers has become boresome even in facilely enthusiastic Texas.

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They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome.

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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."

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"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 Nesbit, E. (Edith)