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- adjective Not
spirited ; lacking animation or liveliness.
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Examples
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Anyway, I was pretty unspirited by the end which I regret.
You don't eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all... scratchy. 2008
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As for the new productions of the stage, though generally unspirited and insipid, they always enjoyed the benefit of his influence and protection; because he never disliked the performance so much as he sympathized with the poor author, who stood behind the scenes in the most dreadful suspense, trembling, as it were, on the very brink of damnation.
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[Action: M puts her hands on Kevin's upper arms] [Action: Kevin makes lazy, unspirited attempt to break free]
kevynwight Diary Entry kevynwight 2002
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Then picture the same area filled with disconnected, spotty, dyspeptic, and unspirited flower-beds and rose bushes!
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The very essence of anger is that it is unspirited and automatic.
The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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The real line of demarcation in modern industry is not between capital and labor, but between spirited capital and labor that want to work, create and construct, on the one hand, and unspirited capital and labor, working as little and thinking as little as they can, on the other.
The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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She seemed like a nightmare of Lucy as she lay there, the pointed teeth, the blood stained, voluptuous mouth, which made one shudder to see, the whole carnal and unspirited appearance, seeming like a devilish mockery of Lucy's sweet purity.
Dracula Bram Stoker 1879
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Vittoria induced the little girl to sit upon her knee, and sang to her, but greatly unspirited the charm of her dress.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Vittoria induced the little girl to sit upon her knee, and sang to her, but greatly unspirited the charm of her dress.
Vittoria — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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Vittoria induced the little girl to sit upon her knee, and sang to her, but greatly unspirited the charm of her dress.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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