boresome
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of boresome
Example Sentences
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Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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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.
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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
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