Lexicographical Neighbors of Ennuyed
Literary usage of Ennuyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860)
"... but they are afraid of being ennuyed for want of the conversation they find
in every salon. Why does a man in London prefer his club to a drawing-room, ..."
2. Famous Women as Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton (1904)
"Finally, one day the King said to his valet, that he was ennuyed, ... "Indeed,
sire, she is, no doubt, still more ennuyed than even your Majesty. ..."
3. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts by William Langland (1886)
"ennuyed, annoyed ; various readings anoyed, ... The alliteration shews that the
word is really ennuyed, annoyed, ..."
4. Portraits of the Eighteenth Century: Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1905)
"From all this, I gather that you are ill and full of ennui; this grieves me.
You are sad because you are ill and ennuyed, and you are ill because you are ..."
5. Early English Text Society by Early English Text Society (1877)
"ennuyed, annoyed; various readings anoyed, ... The alliteration shews that the
word is really ennuyed, annoyed, ..."
6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1899)
"Eramus said to a madman, ' I am not the fruit of an ennuyed conjugal effort?'"
But we protest against such English being addressed to sane folk. ..."
7. Catalogue of the Apprentices' Library in New-York: Established and Supported (1865)
"Jameson, Anna, Diary of an ennuyed, 12mo. 10119. ... Jameson, Anna, Visits and
Sketches at Home and Abroad; also, a Diary of an ennuyed, 2 vols. 12mo. ..."