boresome

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It is trying so hard to maintain its reputation for this gift, that sooner or later, it becomes obnoxious and boresome: How do you get that way?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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Certain English critics in their fault-finding have been particularly boresome, because, forsooth, Tchaikowsky's music does not show the serenity of Brahms or the solidity or stolidity of their own composers.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond