ennuied

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The ennuied Count Rosal lunched with them,—a sallow, fatigued young patrician who wore a pince-nez.

From The Game and the Candle by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

And he says too that, "The educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuied for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance of it all."

From Escape, and Other Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

She maintained that the young wife always looked like an ennuied duchess, and was constantly trying to show that she had been educated in Paris.

From Waldfried A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

It was with a generally ennuied air that he sauntered at midnight into a night lunch room much frequented by the Courier staff and encountered Dick there, whom he greeted with enthusiasm.

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.

The erstwhile Major had been found dead on a dark street and brought by curious and ennuied citizens to the drug store.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.