Bored
Bored adjective - Having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted.
Fond of
Both terms in one sentence
- In Final Fantasy Tactics, Balbanes Beoulve was fond of teaching his children how to turn a piece of grass into a reed flute, and those children taught it to their friends in order to kill time when they were bored.
Source: Commonality Connection -
Sofia of The Glaceon and the Shadow is very fond of science and loves to show off her knowledge, yet is somewhat shy and awkward about it, and tends to suddenly interrupt herself and worry the person she's talking to is bored by her.
Source: Cute Bookworm -
Holmes, on the other hand, is shown to be careless with his health, easily bored because of his fast mind, absolutely dependent upon mental stimulation, brilliant, quirky, fond of "his Boswell"... And just look at him when he's sitting all folded up before the fire - it's a powerful image.
Source: Series / Sherlock Holmes
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