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

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

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"I warn you that your guests may be boresome; however, have it your own way," Albert's uncle said; and he went off to write the invitation to tea to the Maidstone Antiquities.

From The Wouldbegoods by Nesbit, E. (Edith)