Boring and Tough

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Boring adjective - Causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest.

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Tough and boring are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tough" instead an adjective "Boring".

Nearby Words: bore, bored

Tough adjective - Not easily chewed.

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Boring and tough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Boring" instead an adjective "Tough".

Nearby Words: toughness, toughen, toughening, tougher, toughed

This trope usually happens because writers are faced with a tough dilemma: If our main characters were realistically limited to the scope of their own jobs, things could get very boring very quickly.

Source: The Main Characters Do Everything
Shira from the fourth movie, much like Lola Bunny, is a boring "tough girl" clone of one of the main characters who only exists to serve as a love interest.

Source: The Scrappy / Animated Film
Boring but Practical: Ashigaru are not particularly strong or tough units, being relatively unskilled and prone to Losing the Team Spirit unless they are clearly over-matching the enemy.

Source: Video Game / Total War: Shogun 2

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