ennuied
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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So long ago as 1805 Sidney Smith used it as a verb and said that he had been ennuied.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English
When I was ennuied at home, visited him.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
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 Conrad, Robert Taylor
His mother is tired, Gertrude ennuied, of course.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
The ennuied Count Rosal lunched with them,—a sallow, fatigued young patrician who wore a pince-nez.
From The Game and the Candle by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
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