boresome

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

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

Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar."

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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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My protests, as always, proving futile, I spent a very boresome time flying backandforth over the same patch of ground.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward