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boredom: "The servants relieved their ennui with gambling and gossip about their masters" (John Barth).; [French, from Old French ... From the Old French verb a noun meaning "worry, boredom" was derived, which became ennui in modern French. This noun, with the sense "boredom," was borrowed into English in the 18th...
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/ennui
dictionary.reference.com/browse/ennui
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Word of the Day - Learn one new word everyday on Dictionary.com ... He glanced at his heavily laden bookshelves. Nothing there appealed to him. The ennui seemed to have settled into his very bones. ... He was often off sick or playing hooky and suffered from a kind of ennui, a mixture of listlessness and willful melancholy.
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dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/1999/11/2...
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I wish I had a cure for this as I know of several fellow bloggers who are suffering from the same affliction. Maybe blogging ennui is going around, like the pig flu. At least you can get Tamiflu for that.
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scrappinjenny.blogspot.com/2009/11/im-suffering-from-en...
scrappinjenny.blogspot.com/2009/11/im-suffering-from-ennui.html
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June 01, 2004 ... Therefore I must post. ... Please get along with posts.
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jerks.puxley.ca/archives/000036.html
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MICHEL: Don't misunderstand. I want to answer it, I truly did, but today, today I am suffering from ennui. ... MICHEL: Severe ennui. You know what ennui is, yes? ... LORELAI: Yes. Um, Webster's defines ennui as a lazy soon to be out of work French concierge who won't answer the phone.
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www.gilmoregirls.org/eguide/transcripts/episode21.html
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Change Player Size ... Watch this video in a new windo ... WillBraden; May 24, 2007;
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7ibPk37_U
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It almost seems a lost notion now: public confidence in police. Especially in British Columbia, where ... Civilian oversight over police could help boost trust ... It almost seems a lost notion now: public confidence in police. Especially in British Columbia, where the image of men and women behind the badge takes one...
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www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1363177
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Tom and I have not been suffering from ennui in Armenia. . Tom is busy working with GIS data for the White Stork project, helping with our website, grocery shopping in the markets, and going to recept ... Last week, as Tom mentioned in his letter, we got up early to go with ... Hiking in the forest north of Lake Sevan...
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www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/West/Yerevan/blog-20581...
www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/West/Yerevan/blog-205811.html
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And then Monday morning comes calling and I wake up for work still tired, and everyone else was smart enough to make the long weekend longer, and ennui leaks right back in like my life is the basement of a shitty suburban ranch house, and circumstance strikes again to make me embarrassed like I haven’t been since I...
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disinterestandennui.blogspot.com/
disinterestandennui.blogspot.com/
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