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

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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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Letters that don't matter, letters from the insignificant and the boresome, simply aren't answered.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 by Various