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What (who) is LANGUIDLY - definition
languidly
see languid
languid
a.
1.
Faint, exhausted, drooping, pining, languishing, flagging, weak, feeble.
2.
Dull, torpid, listless, spiritless, heartless, heavy, inactive, slow, sluggish.
languid
If you describe someone as languid, you mean that they show little energy or interest and are very slow and casual in their movements. (LITERARY)
To his delight a familiar, tall, languid figure lowered itself down the steps of a club.
ADJ
• languidly
We sat about languidly after dinner...
ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
Examples of use of LANGUIDLY
1. His father stared languidly over their Provençal estate.
2. Not today, as I watch the first snowflakes of 2006 drifting languidly through the frosty air.
3. Birds, mice, voles, slow–worms, young rabbits — it catches and dispatches them languidly, almost disinterestedly.
4. The blood donors cast quick glances at the prisoner, who languidly examined an X–ray of his shattered knee.
5. "Not a good shot," says Mikey Holding while people up and down the country breath in and out rather less languidly.