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yawnsome

/ ˈjɔːnsəm /

adjective

  1. slang,  dull and boring; tiresome

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Two years later, she starred in one of the most lucrative film franchises ever: Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s Scream, in which she played Sidney Prescott, a young woman who becomes the target of an increasingly yawnsome succession of Munchian-mask-wearing murderers.

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You get 45 minutes of awesome encased in 90 minutes of yawnsome.

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The experts can always come up with yawnsome explanations as to why different figures pull in different directions, but all the lay person needs to take away is that all this adds up to a job market that is more becalmed than anything else.

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Lights Out is, basically, the best Take That single since Rule The World and will hopefully make those yawnsome tech geeks think twice before they try and mess with the Astley again.

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That's a fair reflection of what has undoubtedly been McIntyre's year – even if many of us find that, skilful delivery notwithstanding, his material is often yawnsome.

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