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lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly

languid = slow (lacking energy or relaxed)

a languid wave of the hand
A gradual warmth, a languorous weariness passed over him descending along his spine from his closely cowled head.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

languorous = slow, relaxed, or with little energy

He did everything with direct and decisive movements, in contrast to his languid look.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

languid = relaxed

Louisa awoke from a torpor, and her eyes languidly opened on her old bed at home, and her old room.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times

languidly = slowly and in a relaxing, non-energetic manner

the languid beat of the stern-wheel came plainly to my ears.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

languid = slowly moving

She looked up at him languidly, as though her lids were weighted with sleep and it cost her an effort to raise them.
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome

languidly = slowly and without much energy

at last the Caterpillar ... addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

languid = slow and lacking energy

Most of the children were still in a land of half stupor, languid, like limp rags.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death

languid = having little energy and moving slowly

On the whole, however, they seemed languid and exhausted.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

languid = to lack energy

His wife was shrill, languid, handsome, and horrible.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

languid = having little energy

At once he starts eating sleepily, she to eat languidly, staring vaguely out.
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town

languidly = in a slow, relaxed manner without much energy

The two men sauntered languidly to the table
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

languidly = moving slowly

Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

languidly = moving slowly in a relaxed manner

The first signs of reawakening came when he discovered more than languid interest in the daily paper.
London, Jack -- Martin Eden
a hot languorous afternoon
In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson -- The Secret Garden
He gave, at any rate, like a convalescent slightly fatigued, a languid shake of his head.
James, Henry -- Turn Of The Screw
and, for a moment, Wolfe lifted his languid head.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Grandfather's Chair
How languid their conversation the last evening of their being together
Austen, Jane -- Sense and Sensibility

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