boresome

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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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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And, not to tire you with long, boresome details, I was lucky.

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.