Ennuis [noun]

Historically, with the possible exception of cars, Americans have approached made-in-America shopping with a large degree of ennui.

The ennui of endless days, week and months at home is understandable.

It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.

It combats ennui, lassitude, and intolerable vacuity, soothing the nerves and diverting attention from self.

The sight of them not only fills me with ennui, but I have no intention of presenting your comic papers with material.

She's handsome yet, but her muscles are getting that loose look and her eyes are bottomless pits of ennui.

Ennui is a word one hears constantly; if it rains toute le monde est triste.

They pay the penalty in that late—sometimes not so late—intolerable maddening ennui.

You may be afflicted in a palace and call it ennui, and it may drive you to commit peccadillos and indiscretions of various sorts.

His mind seems to have become clouded, and the lassitude and ennui his work caused him is everywhere apparent.