All 8 Uses of
languid
in
Catch-22
- He swam languorously out to the raft, held on a moment, and swam languorously back to where he could stand on the sand bar.†
Chpt 14 *
- He swam languorously out to the raft, held on a moment, and swam languorously back to where he could stand on the sand bar.†
Chpt 14
- He pointed languidly toward the wall.†
Chpt 19
- A lissome, blond, sinuous girl with lovely legs and honey-colored skin laid herself out contentedly on the arm of the old man's chair and began molesting his angular, pale, dissolute face languidly and coquettishly.†
Chpt 23
- He gestured languidly toward his gigantic map of Italy.†
Chpt 29
- The girl smiled with contentment when she opened her eyes and saw him, and then, stretching her long legs languorously beneath the rustling sheets, beckoned him into bed beside her with that look of simpering idiocy of a woman in heat.†
Chpt 33
- 'No, we've got to find him guilty first,' the officer without insignia cautioned with a languid restraining wave.†
Chpt 36
- Her face — as beautiful as a blooming flower to him now — was distorted with a new kind of torture, the tissues serenely swollen, her half-closed eyes misty and unseeing with the stultifying languor of desire.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly