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the feeling of being bored by something tedious

She's suffering mid-life ennui with evaporating hopes.

We're living together until ennui do us part.
They were only a week married, and here was George already suffering ennui, and eager for others' society
Thackeray, William Makepeace -- Vanity Fair
I found D— at home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter

ennui = the feeling of being bored by something tedious

Ennui is the mortal enemy of prisoners; I had ennui, and I amused myself with twisting that rope.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
He had absolutely nothing to do, almost died of ennui, and became a confirmed misanthrope.
Wilde, Oscar -- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
He had on evening dress, a moustache, a chrysanthemum, and a look of ennui, all of which he kept carefully under his eye.
Crane, Stephen -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
The surmise of my maturer years is that, bored by her interminable life, the venerable antiquity was simply yawning with ennui at every seam.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Mirror of the Sea
Quel ennui d'ecrire quelquechose que l'on ne comprend pas
Bronte, Charlotte -- The Professor
As well as to weakness and exhaustion, does he appeal to too much strength, to superabundant vitality, to the ennui of idleness.
London, Jack -- John Barleycorn
It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
Chopin, Kate -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
and it was all from ennui, gentlemen, all from ennui; inertia overcame me.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Notes from the Underground
Ennui was a word of which I have forgotten the meaning.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Yellow Crayon
I see coming an age of sexual catastrophe—a violent increase of bondage, increased violence and guilt, increased disgust and ennui.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
You know, I might do this thing out of pure spite .... or out of ennui.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
He had on evening dress, a moustache, a chrysanthemum, and a look of ennui, all of which he kept carefully under his eye.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Something I must do, or ennui will rain upon me in buckets.
David McCullough -- John Adams
His initial reaction is one of ennui: there is a ritual dance to be gone through, and it is one that bores him.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
It's my ennui—"It's just, yeah, no other way to get around it.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?

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