Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being
spiritless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why tackle Iran army to army when you can have her own citizens, seduced by the culture of fashion, shopping and spiritlessness.
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It is no easier than knowing oneself, nad no less subject to distortion and spiritlessness.
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It is no easier than knowing oneself, nad no less subject to distortion and spiritlessness.
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In the spiritlessness of this forlorn day, what could be better than a little post about a certain bridge and the people who jump off of it.
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In the spiritlessness of this forlorn day, what could be better than a little post about a certain bridge and the people who jump off of it.
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But even the soda water, as if adjusting itself to the spiritlessness of the prisoners, refused to effervesce.
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And my spirit sank within me, and I cursed my avarice in accepting the commission, my spiritlessness in not throwing it over while yet there was time.
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And my spirit sank within me, and I cursed my avarice in accepting the commission, my spiritlessness in not throwing it over while yet there was time.
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You see, the genuine spiritlessness is wanting; that's what's the trouble.
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His spiritlessness served to inspire the chaffinch with greater boldness, and then it appeared that the gay little creature was really and truly incensed, possibly because the rusty, draggled, and listless appearance of the larger bird was offensive to him.
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