All 16 Uses of
languid
in
Bleak House
- …fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained-glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well may the uninitiated from the streets, who peep in through the glass panes in the door, be deterred from entrance by its owlish aspect and by the drawl, languidly echoing to the roof from the padded dais where the Lord High Chancellor looks into the lantern that has no light in it and where the attendant wigs are all stuck in a fog-bank!†
Chpt 1-3
- For whom everything must be languid and pretty.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- Lady Dedlock languidly anticipates.†
Chpt 10-12
- He is of such a very easy disposition that probably he would never think it worth-while to mention how he really feels, but he feels languid about the profession.†
Chpt 16-18
- Shall I ever forget the manner in which those handsome proud eyes seemed to spring out of their languor and to hold mine!†
Chpt 16-18
- Mr. Chadband, pausing with the resignation of a man accustomed to be persecuted and languidly folding up his chin into his fat smile, says, "Let us hear the maiden!†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. Guppy propounds for Mr. Smallweed's consideration the paradox that the more you drink the thirstier you are and reclines his head upon the windowsill in a state of hopeless languor.†
Chpt 19-21
- "Indeed," remarks my Lady languidly, "if there is any uncommon eye in the case, it is Mrs. Rouncewell's, and not mine.†
Chpt 28-30
- The man's mind is not so well balanced but that he bores my Lady, who, after a languid effort to listen, or rather a languid resignation of herself to a show of listening, becomes distraught and falls into a contemplation of the fire as if it were her fire at Chesney Wold, and she had never left it.†
Chpt 28-30
- The man's mind is not so well balanced but that he bores my Lady, who, after a languid effort to listen, or rather a languid resignation of herself to a show of listening, becomes distraught and falls into a contemplation of the fire as if it were her fire at Chesney Wold, and she had never left it.†
Chpt 28-30
- We went back into the hall and explained to Jo what we proposed to do, which Charley explained to him again and which he received with the languid unconcern I had already noticed, wearily looking on at what was done as if it were for somebody else.†
Chpt 31-33
- I pretend to no claim upon you, Mr. C., but for the zealous and active discharge—not the languid and routine discharge, sir: that much credit I stipulate for—of my professional duty.†
Chpt 37-39
- A languid cousin with a moustache in a state of extreme debility now observes from his couch that man told him ya'as'dy that Tulkinghorn had gone down t' that iron place t' give legal 'pinion 'bout something, and that contest being over t' day, 'twould be highly jawlly thing if Tulkinghorn should 'pear with news that Coodle man was floored.†
Chpt 40-42
- It is almost too troublesome to her languid eyes to bestow a look upon him as she asks this question.†
Chpt 46-48
- "As Sir Leicester observed, Mr. Rouncewell, on the last occasion when we were fatigued by this business," Lady Dedlock languidly proceeds, "we cannot make conditions with you.†
Chpt 46-48
- I found Richard thin and languid, slovenly in his dress, abstracted in his manner, forcing his spirits now and then, and at other intervals relapsing into a dull thoughtfulness.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly