Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Listless; languid; lifeless; indifferent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.
- adjective Free from sexual lust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
sexual lust . - adjective obsolete Lacking
vigour ;weak ;spiritless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moreover, I welcome the coming of a new day when we will all be lustless, righteous vessels floating in a single, ever-expanding universe that, long ago, flew out of a magical woman's baby-deploying cavity.
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Moreover, I welcome the coming of a new day when we will all be lustless, righteous vessels floating in a single, ever-expanding universe that, long ago, flew out of a magical woman's baby-deploying cavity.
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Moreover, I welcome the coming of a new day when we will all be lustless, righteous vessels floating in a single, ever-expanding universe that, long ago, flew out of a magical woman's baby-deploying cavity.
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I find his Lutheran paddling world of lustless frustration almost as disturbing as Allen's Judaica manias.
The new Woody Allen movie: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." Ann Althouse 2008
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The lustless love on display in "HSM" -- there isn't a single kiss -- thrusts the film squarely into the center of the ongoing culture wars over "decency" in radio and television, and at a particularly heated juncture.
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T'awake the lustless sun, or chiding, that so long
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845
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T'awake the lustless sun, or chiding, that so long
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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And of course, they're going to pick the sort of songs that the Cure just kept on the right side of embarrassing, the kind that you might have viewed as gospel in your hormonall - challenging teen years that their cloying, lustless approach will completely ruin for you.
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7 For in his lustless limbs, through evil guise, lustless > {Listless; joyless, lacking pleasure or delight} guise > mode of life
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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_lustless_: the noun _lust_ has lost its original and wider sense (which it still has in German), and now signifies 'longing desire. '
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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