Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a languid manner; feebly; sluggishly; listlessly; without spirit or animation.
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- adverb In a
languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.
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- adverb in a languid and lethargic manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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A heavily veiled lady, whom no one had hitherto noticed, rose languidly from a seat and greeted him in a clear, penetrating voice.
literature 2007
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He rose languidly from the broken rail; my brother offered him his shoulder to lean on; he placed the little white hand there, and was led into the house.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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The way she's kind of languidly making the point with her right index finger is priceless!
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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"A lovely bribe," languidly, "but don't hurry, for mother and I are leaving to-morrow."
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Here she will sit through the hour, gossiping with her friends, watching the antics of several beautiful, dubious women, camp followers of the rich, who add undoubted interest to the place; calling languidly to her dog: "_Viens, Tou-tou!
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913
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In the midst of the horror and confusion of the household, the murderer slips out, goes home, and is resting calmly, thinking with intense delight of the splendid success of the plan, and of the extraordinary skill he had shown in its conception and execution; when, just as he was dropping off to sleep in delicious drowsiness, there "languidly" entered into his head this thought: it speaks to his mind in the third person, as though somebody else had actually said it: It is very possible that Dr. Kerzhentsev is really insane.
Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps 1904
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He adjusted his impeccable tweed jacket and thought languidly for a moment about the enigmatic but passionate kiss Sophie had planted on his lips before leaving an hour earlier.
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He adjusted his impeccable tweed jacket and thought languidly for a moment about the enigmatic but passionate kiss Sophie had planted on his lips before leaving an hour earlier.
Fiction 2009
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He adjusted his impeccable tweed jacket and thought languidly for a moment about the enigmatic but passionate kiss Sophie had planted on his lips before leaving an hour earlier.
Anti-Catholicism 2009
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The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners.
The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett 2011
Louises commented on the word languidly
We moved languidly, two creatures gone into by the drift of dark water alongside us, neither river nor sea and with no opposite shore. Stars came all the way down to the horizon, nestled in the water.
March 18, 2012