All 5 Uses of
languid
in
David Copperfield
- The languid stillness of the place was only broken by the chirping of this fire and by the voice of one of the Doctors, who was wandering slowly through a perfect library of evidence, and stopping to put up, from time to time, at little roadside inns of argument on the journey.†
Chpt 22-24
- Mrs. Micawber put on her brown gloves, and assumed a genteel languor.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- Mr. Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.†
Chpt 34-36
- But his languor altogether was quite a wonderful sight; except when he addressed himself to his cousin Annie.†
Chpt 34-36
- Besides which, she is so charmingly ugly,' relapsing into languor.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly