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  • adjective boring, uninteresting

Etymologies

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bore +‎ -some

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Examples

  • But it was a very ancient and boresome experience to Collins.

    CHAPTER XXV 2010

  • October 8, 2008 at 2:33 pm yah. dat be full of notwin and boresome.

    choreographer kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • When this was over with, some rope dancers came in and a very boresome fool stood holding a ladder, ordering his boy to dance from rung to rung, and finally at the top, all this to the music of popular airs; then the boy was compelled to jump through blazing hoops while grasping a huge wine jar with his teeth.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

    Love and Marriage, Fox-Style: Ain’t That a Kick in the Head - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

  • To tell in detail of the next few days would be boresome to any who have not tasted the dire slavery of dope.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • The task was more boresome than he had thought for.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • To the pugnacious Trimble, a duty normally boresome proved welcome.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • To the pugnacious Trimble, a duty normally boresome proved welcome.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Though he knew most of the rangers found it boresome when the Captain started in lecturing, he himself enjoyed hearing about the battles Captain Scull described.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

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  • With the years, Miss Nicholl grew no less flat in the purse and no more delightful to the eye, and it is a boresome business to go on and on feeling tenderness for one whose luck never changes.

    —Dorothy Parker, 'The Bolt behind the Blue'

    November 12, 2008