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Meanings of spiritless in English

Lacking ardor or vigor or energy.

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        Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant.

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              Examples for "spirited"
              Examples for "spirited"
              1
              While an underling spirited the cage away he added: 'You enjoy food?'
              The dark side of the sun
              2
              Mean-spirited, I know, but pain takes you past the point of civility.
              Devil Bones
              3
              Madam, - So much for opinion polls and a mean-spirited Irish media.
              The Irish Times
              4
              However, they cannot take anything for granted against a spirited Russia side.
              The South African
              5
              Reports of a hostile workplace have included criticism that DeGeneres is mean-spirited.
              Reuters
              Usage of spiritless in English
              1
              I'm in the thick of the most spiritless crew in the kingdom.
              Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2
              2
              She was acting Miss Howe, I thought; and I the spiritless Hickman.
              Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4
              3
              Sir Isaac himself seemed spiritless; he was aware that something was wrong.
              What Will He Do with It? — Complete
              4
              Upon the spiritless, cowardly and unwarlike, such deformity of visage still remains.
              Tacitus on Germany
              5
              But Edith felt too fagged and spiritless just at present to notice.
              A Terrible Secret: A Novel
              6
              His mother was crying, and her speech was punctuated with spiritless sniffles.
              When God Laughs, and Other Stories
              7
              He answered her without hesitation, but his tone was dull and spiritless.
              A Lost Leader
              8
              Languid and spiritless, they lay supine, or crawled listlessly and aimlessly about.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 / A Maga...
              9
              Antique models have been glorified, with a sequence of puny, spiritless imitations.
              The Complete Home
              10
              Her voice had lost its ring; the sound of it was leaden, spiritless.
              Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
              11
              The Anglo-Indian ladies of Bombay struck me for the most part as spiritless.
              The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume...
              12
              A spiritless woman in a wife is what they bear least of all.
              Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2
              13
              The universities are poor and spiritless, with no ambition to lead the country.
              An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestraine...
              14
              Before the open door basked children and pigs and a few spiritless chickens.
              Ma Pettengill
              15
              The dancing was spiritless, and there was little more of it.
              Feats on the Fiord / The third book in "The Playfellow"
              16
              There are the hopeless and spiritless-themass-whowelter passively on, breeding and dying.
              Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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