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Significados de languid em inglês

Lacking spirit or liveliness.

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Examples for "dreamy"
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Some were smoking; some chatting merrily together; some sitting in dreamy languor.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
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His voice was slurred, the words coming out in a dreamy monotone.
Flesh Eaters
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He paused in his dreamy utterance, and turned in his chair listening.
The Master-Christian
4
Poor old Ted; he is the most dreamy chap that ever was.
Saint's Progress
5
The sky was dreamy; a delicate blue seen through a golden gauze.
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
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The languorous dream is broken; there is an air of new expectancy.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
2
The hot tub, followed by the wine, had left her feeling languorous.
The lake
3
Somebody played the languorous waltzes of the Tzigane orchestras on the piano.
Cæsar or Nothing
4
There reached them the murmur of voices, the languorous lap of water.
V. V.'s Eyes
5
All the feline joy of her languorous ease seemed to have departed.
The Pawns Count
1
Marriage is a lackadaisical proceeding at best; but there is no resource.
Paul Clifford — Volume 04
2
The lackadaisical gentleman with the moustache turned out to be her husband.
Green Fancy
3
And he began to sing, in a lackadaisical manner, through his nose:
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
4
I tell you fairly that I cannot sympathize with a lackadaisical lover.
The Small House at Allington
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Louise's lackadaisical manner was partially feigned; she'd counted on Corelli's being busy tonight.
Creepers
Uso de languid em inglês
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I hid my surprise at his question behind a long, languid stretch.
Fortune's Pawn
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All over Ireland hotels are refurbishing and renovating after 10 languid years.
The Irish Times
3
All that was back in the decrepit and languid and hopesick nineties.
The Canadian Commonwealth
4
A languid South African team were lucky to get nil that day.
The South African
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A languid moment passed, then she laughed, her body shaking with it.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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With a languid yet graceful poise, he feints and shimmies past opponents.
The Guardian
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The animal started slowly moving toward them through the doorway, languid, unafraid.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
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Her mother opened her languid eyes wide when the child came in.
Men, Women, and Ghosts
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Steam curled languidly from it; also a smell not quite as languid.
In Secret
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The families have been frustrated with the government's languid and uninformative response.
The South African
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The following week or so my mood was strangely languid and serene.
Pinball, 1973
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It was so very different from Rohan's pale, languid, surprisingly strong one.
Ruthless
13
Sibylla busied herself with the tea, in a languid sort of manner.
Verner's Pride
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In summer he is not languid, for the air is never sultry.
California and the Californians
15
She settled back upon the cushions, stretched one languid arm in farewell.
Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories
16
To the south, orchards and woods bounded the languid Bay of Divers.
Penguin Island
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