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boresome

[bawr-suhm, bohr-] / ˈbɔr səm, ˈboʊr- /


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Few others watched the takeoff, for news of new air record-seekers has become boresome even in facilely enthusiastic Texas.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Denver, socially boresome classmates formerly referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff.

From Time Magazine Archive

People were making the best of boresome weather within, frankly yawning, most of them.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Harry Bates




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