boresome

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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.

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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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In Denver, socially boresome classmates formerly referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff.

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

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Now he felt himself isolated, stifled by that kind of friendly hostility used on boresome callers.

From Their Son; The Necklace by Zamacois, Eduardo