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- adverb In a
boring manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a tedious manner
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Examples
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He does what we call boringly applied micro economics.
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He does what we call boringly applied micro economics.
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Well, I had a nice, detailed post on on the "Bong hits 4 Jesus" case -- boringly aka Morse v.
Archive 2007-03-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Well, I had a nice, detailed post on on the "Bong hits 4 Jesus" case -- boringly aka Morse v.
"Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"... Ann Althouse 2007
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Because that's going to get boringly tedious after a while.
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The New York Times recently reported that young people no longer want the "boringly long process" of signing into an e-mail account -- not when there is texting.
Michele Willens: This Is Not A Romantic-Comedy World Michele Willens 2011
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A world where the concept of fashion has little meaning or merit and the snap of a conservatively, nay, boringly dressed group of young royals having a good time at an exclusive event is opiate to the tabloid-reading masses.
A Flashy, Positively Ghastly Spectacle Tina Gaudoin 2011
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Anything outside the prison was boringly glazed over, even though they were out there brawling with robots.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » StarE’s Review Forum 2009
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As I doggedly and, probably rather boringly, discussed the positions of the candidates, he would go off on wild tangents of his own.
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism" r_urell 2010
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I haven't seen so many people so boringly debate so many contrived moral questions and ambiguities since the last Star Trek series was canceled.
And so it begins...A Torchwood CoE Press Review rabid1st 2009
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