Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a languishing or drooping manner; with lassitude or tender longing; so as to cause languor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a languishing manner.
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- adverb In a
languishing manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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To not just make Lou Reed elegant - as the languishingly plucky "Sweet Jane" is rendered - but to insert an Indian peyote chant is to demonstrate the elasticity of rock and roll when it's understood.
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For every blooming bird is an Oxford cuckoo nowadays, you can't sit on a bus nor in the tube but it breathes gently and languishingly in the back of your neck.
Obama echoes the phrase that made me turn against Kerry. Ann Althouse 2008
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With the little groan of one who yields to a desire contrary to her self-respect, Louisa dropped at the feet of Helena, laid her arm and her head languishingly on the knee of her friend.
The Trespasser 2003
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When they were dancing he used to squeeze her hand, and turn up his eyes languishingly.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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Happening to catch her eye he looked rather guilty, then, cocking his head to one side, simpered languishingly, "What shall I say to thee, heart of my heart?"
Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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"Ah, sir!" languishingly remarked Augustus, "he will be a happy may who gets possession of such a treasure!"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Various
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She flickered impossible eyelashes at me languishingly, in perfect coquetry.
Valley of the Croen Lee Tarbell
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When they were dancing he used to squeeze her hand, and turn up his eyes languishingly.
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So she half closed her eyes, leaned back in her chair, looked languishingly at
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille
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How languishingly it trembled on the leafy spire, and glimmered with dying faintness on the mountain's sable brow! till it expired and resigned the world to the gradual approaches of night.
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