adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
easily
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Wants to live life to the full. Easily bored with repetition or details.
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They are, in fact, suspicious of anything simple and easily bored with it.
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Unfortunately Trevor was a restless child, and easily bored .
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Examiners are human beings, and they are easily bored .
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But I get so bored with myself.
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I wish she hadn't sounded quite so bored , nor in so much of a hurry.
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I get so bored at home!
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You must be so bored with war talk.
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I felt ashamed of feeling so bored with them.
very
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In the end, she got very bored with staring out of the window at all the greenery outside.
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It's just that I seem to have got very bored with it.
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Jenny's twenty-sixth birthday was rolling round and she was becoming bored - very bored.
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Because I would be very bored if all I did was administration.
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I get very bored with reading how difficult he is and how cold he is.
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I quite suddenly got very bored with M's conversation tonight.
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One shop assistant approached my very bored husband rather than me.
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I get very bored with all this.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bored/scared/worried stiff
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And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
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Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff .
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He was scared stiff , thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
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He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
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Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
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Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff .
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We looked at each other, scared stiff , but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dad, can we go home now? I'm bored !
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Julia soon got bored with lying on the beach.
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Kelly gets a new job, and two weeks later he's bored with it.
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Mom, I'm bored !
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She seems to get bored very easily.
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The game isn't great, but it might provide some amusement for bored teenagers.
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There's nothing to do here - I'm bored stiff!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actually, if he had gone, he would have been rather bored .
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But that was for bored husbands, and businessmen dating their secretaries.
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He was also bored with Yolande and started bringing home girls, suggesting to Yolande that they try a threesome.
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I was not bored , not in the least.
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Mary looked bored and cross and said nothing.
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She felt that Nelson was bored and it was her fault.
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The soldier, becoming bored with the game, laconically reached out his cigarette end and burst the balloon in my face.
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We got bored of that, we moved on.