spiritlessness

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Noun
  • Bailey recommends that people watch out for signs of lethargy, runny nose, or discharge around the eyes.
    Sarah Boden, NPR, 22 Jan. 2025
  • But to many, there appears to be a lethargy that is out of place with the club’s precarious predicament.
    Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Eastwood stars in both, and both suffer from some of the late-career languors that started to creep into his movies after a certain point, mostly due to a tendency to let dialogue scenes play on and on without much regard to rhythm or pace.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • That there was this kind of languor, a little bit of maturity.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The United States, however, has lost its capacity for self-government through stupendous intellectual indolence and the exaltation of puerilities, like Tayor Swift or Tom Brady, over thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Montaigne.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2024
  • If slouching among privileged white Americans could indicate an enviable carelessness, it was seen as proof of indolence when adopted by the disadvantaged.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Their bodies go into a torpor where their heart rate and metabolism slows 20% to 50%.
    Damon Arthur, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Amid the torpor of their burgeoning love, the corpses start to stack up.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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