spiritlessness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritlessness
Noun
  • But lethargy has been nagging at them again this week, in defeat and in victory.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Symptoms include dehydration, diarrhea, fever, lethargy, loss of appetite and vomiting.
    Allana Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • During an epidemic that otherwise made life hectic and clamorous, the militarized languor of the residents was glaring precisely because Liberians who were already displaced from the recent Civil War felt abandoned by the government.
    Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Eastwood stars in both, and both suffer from some of the late-career languors that started to creep into his movies after a certain point, mostly due to a tendency to let dialogue scenes play on and on without much regard to rhythm or pace.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The government insisted that the corn be sold rather than given away (free food would merely reinforce Irish indolence), and those who received it had little idea at first how to cook it.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The book is thematically framed by the two extremes of contemporary London: the charmed experiences of the elite, leisured classes in the West End and the extreme poverty and indolence of the East End.
    Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • His erotic energy jolts the community from its torpor.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Their bodies go into a torpor where their heart rate and metabolism slows 20% to 50%.
    Damon Arthur, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.

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