[
UK
/bˈɔːɹɪŋli/
]
ADVERB
-
in a tedious manner
boringly slow work
he plodded tediously forward
How To Use boringly In A Sentence
- The meal itself was not so good — everything was boringly brown including the vegetables.
- Cook's findings are presented in boringly linear sequence, fact following fact with mind-numbing monotony.
- For instance, Prokofiev's boringly patriotic 1945 opera adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace was taken as using the dramatic defeat of Napoleon in 1812 as an allegory for the Red Army's recent repulsion of the Nazis.
- Whenever mentioning school days, they would recollect the endless hours when they sat in the classroom idly and boringly.
- Glassner, with her charmingly unkempt curls, crocheted dress, and Brooklyn ZIP code, has already upstaged the other fashion editors, whose dramatic hair (peroxide blonde, flat-ironed) and outfits (stilettos, leather) seemed almost boringly predictable.
- Much of the political art of the modernist period, and certainly that produced by totalitarian regimes, had been boringly realist and only too obviously subordinated to totalizing ideologies.
- Where once ballet slippers, car shoes, moccasins and brogues were once boringly themselves, now they've somehow interbred, jollied up and produced a new generation of lightened-up fashion ideas.
- The meal itself was not so good — everything was boringly brown including the vegetables.
- The chronograph printed out boringly similar speeds.
- But then in his post-victory remarks, the candidate went on and on and on, boringly, without the lift and eloquence and fluency of even his opponent.