Adjective : a languid manner. From Dictionary.com.
The doctor seemed very uneasy at this languidness, of which Marsa said. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He yielded at last, from sheer languidness, and came silently into the house. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
There is something in this to explain the languidness or cessation of many girl friendships. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886] Reference
"Oh, I certainly know what is good for me," his grace said, the languidness back in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
What used to be considered insipidity in a girl is now just the opposite: sublime languidness!. From Wordnik.com. [Children Playing by the Sea: the Dynamics of Appropriation in the Brazilian Romantic Novel] Reference
The air was warm, humid, enveloping us in its languidness, as though this is how it was meant to be, always. From Wordnik.com. [A song of the past. «] Reference
September 26th, 2008 at 1: 50 am mortage rates says: mortage rates … strongly? doings languidness file sought …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable] Reference
Ralph's point of view Derry Drake was not handsome, and he was utterly unaware that back of Derry's silver-blond slenderness and apparent languidness were banked fires which could more than match his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
Thus, on the other hand, if Heaven should be so kind that she would never have to make war, the languidness that should arise would make her either effeminate or divided: which two together, or each one by itself, would be cause of her ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses] Reference
I put a finger on a judge and retorted with scathing languidness. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
I put my finger on a judge, and retorted with scathing languidness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters from My Autobiography] Reference
Chase threw off his spell of languidness and looked hard at the speaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Man from Brodney's] Reference
His directness brought Lily Condor out of her languidness with a sharp turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood Red Dawn] Reference
I have been the master of my own languidness and in the profession of lolling. From Wordnik.com. [high up in the trees] Reference
The band's sound manages to marry garage-rock verve with space-jam languidness. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:/music] Reference
Page 258 has a good, strong face, too, but there is utter languidness about her. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Comments] Reference
"I wonder if it would be an imposition to ask you to wait about five minutes longer," inquired Miss Stevens with a languidness which did. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story] Reference
But the languidness and indifference were only masks which he chose to assume when too great interest would have thwarted his own schemes. From Wordnik.com. [The Native Born or, the Rajah's People] Reference
But Geoffrey Ormond, in spite of his surface languidness, was quick of thought and action, and with swift dexterity gripped his right arm from behind. From Wordnik.com. [Lorimer of the Northwest] Reference
It pleased her to assume airs with her teacher -- a very deferential lady -- to put off a lesson for a fit of languidness; to let it be understood how entirely time was at her command. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
'Mosaico' seems to pick up from the preceding track's languidness at first, but once the main body settles in, the fusion - prog framework with balances aggressiveness returns as recognizable as a lifelong friend. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
The pain which lovers cause each other -- through fickleness, languidness, jealousy, and the thousand natural shocks that love is heir to -- is not altogether pain, though at the moment it may seem the most poignant anguish the human soul could suffer. From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
An absence of any "what-pots" in the corners with rows of cheerful shells, and Hindoo gods, and Chinese idols, and nests of use less boxes of lacquered wood, might be taken as denoting a languidness in the family concerning foreign missions, but perhaps unjustly. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
Prior to the development of the spasmodic affection, there is usually a period in which the sufferer notes a want of appetite, languidness, with disinclination towards mental or bodily pursuits, headache, restlessness, pains in the limbs and joints, with irritable temper and weakness of memory. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Where they found that any of these ladies had a taste for gardening, drawing, music, reading, or any manual or mental art, they cultivated it, assisted them in the pleasantest means, and by various little schemes have kept up these inclinations with all the spirit of pursuit which is requisite to preserve most minds from that state of languidness and inactivity whereby life is rendered wearisome to those who have never found it unfortunate. From Wordnik.com. [A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue] Reference
I put a finger on a judge and retorted with scathing languidness: “Ancestor of mine. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
Barbara feigned languidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
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