boresome

Example Sentences

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It is trying so hard to maintain its reputation for this gift, that sooner or later, it becomes obnoxious and boresome: How do you get that way?

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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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Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself.

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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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It seemed that they now accepted the thing as settled, and the prospect of further waiting was boresome.

From The Bondboy by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)