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Definition
lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly
- The sun was low in the west, and the breeze soft and languorous that came up from the south, charged with the seductive odor of the sea.Chapter 5 (74% in)
- His eyes gathered in and reflected the light and languor of the summer day.Chapter 2 (30% in)
- She thought of Madame Ratignolle, but knew that her fair friend did not leave the house, except to take a languid walk around the block with her husband after nightfall.Chapter 25 (60% in)
- She slept a languorous sleep, interwoven with vanishing dreams.Chapter 25 (**% in)
- Mrs. Highcamp hung with languid but unaffected interest upon the warm and impetuous volubility of her left-hand neighbor, Victor Lebrun.Chapter 30 (48% in)
There are no more uses of "languid" in The Awakening.
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