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

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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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Perhaps there are people who would consider it stupid, boresome, to live in such peace as that.

From An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Parker, Cornelia Stratton