All 5 Uses of
anemic
in
Babbitt
- She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun.†
Chpt 1 *
- Among the pictures, hung in the exact center of each gray panel, were a red and black imitation English hunting-print, an anemic imitation boudoir-print with a French caption of whose morality Babbitt had always been rather suspicious, and a "hand-colored" photograph of a Colonial room—rag rug, maiden spinning, cat demure before a white fireplace.†
Chpt 7
- There are two anemic towers, one roofed with copper, the other crowned with castiron ferns.†
Chpt 17
- One shoulder was lower than the other; one arm she carried in contorted fashion, as though it were paralyzed; and behind a high collar of cheap lace there was a gouge in the anemic neck which had once been shining and softly plump.†
Chpt 26
- When Babbitt was driving down to the office he overtook Eathorne's car, with the great banker sitting in anemic solemnity behind his chauffeur.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(anemia) a deficiency of red blood cells or where red blood cells are deficient in hemoglobin -- resulting in fatigue
or (less commonly):
suffering from a lack of energy