All 9 Uses of
languid
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- "We ran away," said Phoebe languidly.†
Story 2.21 *
- The calming and languid smell of manure came slowly to meet her as she passed through the back gate and went out to the pasture among the mounds of wild roses.†
Story 2.22
- The little town took a languor and a kind of beauty from the treatment of time and place.†
Story 2.25
- There were posters in the dirty windows and a languid, enthroned man offering tickets and intoning all day long the words, "Have-you-seen-Emma?" in a voice so tired it gave the effect of downright menace.†
Story 3.31
- "Press their heads," Jinny said languidly, over her shoulder.†
Story 3.32
- At the intersection marked Arabi, where their road led out of the tangle and he took it, a small Negro seated beneath a black umbrella astride a box chalked "Shou Shine" lifted his pink-and-black hand and waved them languidly good-by.†
Story 4.33
- The young wife, leaning back and letting her eyes fall a little while on the child, gave him dim, languorous looks, not quite shaking her head at him.†
Story 4.35
- As she sat down again she drew that fan, black and covered over with a shower of forget-me-nots, languidly across her bosom.†
Story 4.38
- Gabriella stayed as she was, caught in an element as languorous as it was strange, like a mermaid who has been netted into a fisherman's boat, only to find that the fisherman is dreaming.†
Story 4.39
Definition:
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(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly