boresome
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of boresome
Example Sentences
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As for wars," she continued with apparent irrelevance, "there's this much to be said: a lot of good men may get killed, but when you think of the thousands of detestable, tyrannical, stingy, boresome husbands—well, it is to be imagined that a few widows will manage to bear up.
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They rose without surprise or disorder, still with strict attention to business continuing to munch at the grass they had plucked as they lay, for all the world as if a famous adventure-seeking general had been only the harmless but boresome shepherd who came to drive them out to pastures new.
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Her musical parties are rigidly musical and to me, therefore, rigidly boresome, especially as she herself sings very little.
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There was an element of excitement in serving moral fiction to unsuspecting listeners, but hoodwinking himself proved a boresome task.
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Well, Judge, life has become rather boresome, so I thought I would drop in and ask you to do me a small favor.
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