ennuied
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Allard bit his lip to steady its quiver, fiercely unwilling to bare his old pain for the diversion of this coldly ennuied inquisitor.
From The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
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 Arthur Christopher Benson
Becoming ennuied with these proceedings, after much entreaty and a glass of wine, they consented to give me an idea of surf-swimming.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
Amongst the crowd there happened to be a set of German musicians, who, by amusing the ennuied passengers, reaped quite a harvest of silver for their exertions.
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Then Gay turned up with a whole flock of new decorators for the d–––for the villa thing, and I was left without aid from the ennuied for another ten days.
From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley
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