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- noun The state or condition of being
boring .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest
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Examples
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I was never a Faith fan on Buffy (in fact I nearly hated her at times), and so even though this show looked interesting, I couldn't get past Eliza Dushku's boringness from the trailers.
Excruciating...Dollhouse Spoilers rabid1st 2009
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His boringness was the culmination of weeks of boredom.
Archive 2006-08-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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However, I can say with certainty that Lost is disappointing me on the regular, and the whiteness and maleness and boringness and fantasy crap (I believe that is spoiler free, we can get specific up in the comments) is upsetting me.
Things to Know yuki_onna 2010
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The pain is not physical, but more sinister, an uneasiness -- anxiety about lack of talent, boringness, poor word choice.
Michael Henry: What Work Is: What Labor Day, the Poet Laureate, Adderall, Mountain Biking, and the Philosopher Horace have in Common Michael Henry 2011
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The pain is not physical, but more sinister, an uneasiness -- anxiety about lack of talent, boringness, poor word choice.
Michael Henry: What Work Is: What Labor Day, the Poet Laureate, Adderall, Mountain Biking, and the Philosopher Horace have in Common Michael Henry 2011
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The pain is not physical, but more sinister, an uneasiness -- anxiety about lack of talent, boringness, poor word choice.
Michael Henry: What Work Is: What Labor Day, the Poet Laureate, Adderall, Mountain Biking, and the Philosopher Horace have in Common Michael Henry 2011
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The pain is not physical, but more sinister, an uneasiness -- anxiety about lack of talent, boringness, poor word choice.
Michael Henry: What Work Is: What Labor Day, the Poet Laureate, Adderall, Mountain Biking, and the Philosopher Horace have in Common Michael Henry 2011
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Anyone who is of like minds with me about the boringness of Cally deserves to be President.
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The pain is not physical, but more sinister, an uneasiness -- anxiety about lack of talent, boringness, poor word choice.
Michael Henry: What Work Is: What Labor Day, the Poet Laureate, Adderall, Mountain Biking, and the Philosopher Horace have in Common Michael Henry 2011
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This is where famous and important people being grilled hide now: in boringness, in an opacity of language so thick that following them is actually impossible.
After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010
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