Both Uses of
interminable
in
The Great Gatsby
- Up in the city, I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock, then I fell asleep in my swivel-chair.†
p. 154..9 *
- Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old — even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.†
p. 176..5
Definition:
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(interminable) seemingly endless; or long and unpleasant (often boring or annoying)