ennuied
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Miladi was often ennuied, now that she was never really well, and the sight and voice of a young man cheered her inexplicably.
From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Amanda Minnie Douglas
His mother is tired, Gertrude ennuied, of course.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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
"And you read right, my dear abbe," said the chevalier; "I am ennuied."
From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas père
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
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