Sentence example with the word 'listlessness'

listlessness

accidia, blahs, disinterest, fatigue, inanimation, jadedness, lethargicalness, phlegmaticness, slowness, supineness, weakness

Definition n. a feeling of lack of interest or energy

Last update: June 27, 2015


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This weakness appears equally in his political and in his professional life: he would refuse practice if his purse were moderately well filled; he would sit for weeks in the Assembly in listlessness and silence, while the policy he had shaped was being gradually undermined, and then rise, brilliant as ever, but too late to avert the calamities which he foresaw.   [Please select]

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"Svidrigaïlov," someone answered from the other room with drowsy listlessness.   [Please select]

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But the period of listlessness and inaction, life-long to some, was nearly ended for this pair.   [Please select]

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A listlessness had come upon me, and I obeyed the pointing finger.   [Please select]

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"Yes, I see," nodded the girl, falling back into her old listlessness.   [Please select]

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Then, as suddenly, the fire died, and the boy fell back into his old listlessness.   [Please select]

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