Both Uses of
languish
in
Main Street
- Playing with Erik, and her married——Well——But she looks at him in that languishing, swooning, mid-Victorian way.†
Chpt 30 *
- They had seemed stiff and undetailed, but now there strode from them a personality, a personality unlike that of the languishing young man in the velvet jacket playing a dummy piano in a canvas room.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(languish) to suffer in a bad situation for a long time