Sample Sentences for
languid
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    The two men sauntered languidly to the table  (source)
    languidly = moving slowly
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    He did everything with direct and decisive movements, in contrast to his languid look.  (source)
    languid = relaxed
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    Most of the children were still in a land of half stupor, languid, like limp rags.  (source)
    languid = having little energy and moving slowly
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    On the whole, however, they seemed languid and exhausted.  (source)
    languid = to lack energy
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    In her stocking feet, she walked steadily, almost languidly, toward the phone.  (source)
    languidly = slow and unhurried
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    Then the poolside exchange with close-ups and pauses, the people a bit detached from their own dialogue, and a sense throughout of morning languor in the standard birdsong, in the rhyth mic motion of men with hedge clippers and the shimmer of perfect turquoise in the background.†  (source)
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    A gradual warmth, a languorous weariness passed over him descending along his spine from his closely cowled head.  (source)
    languorous = slow, relaxed, or with little energy
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    Whoever danced would dance more languorously, holding tight.†  (source)
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    A virile new Britain cannot continue indefinitely to be traduced in the eyes, or rather ears, of the world by the effete languors of Langham Place, brazenly masquerading as "standard English."†  (source)
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    The tug-of-war, sack hop, and three-legged races were over, and a languidness had inevitably crept over things, so that here and there grown men slept in the grass with newspapers over their faces.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    at last the Caterpillar ... addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.  (source)
    languid = slow and lacking energy
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    At once he starts eating sleepily, she to eat languidly, staring vaguely out.  (source)
    languidly = in a slow, relaxed manner without much energy
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    It was a trio for hyper-violin, super-cello and oboe-surrogate that now filled the air with its agreeable languor.†  (source)
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