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  • adjective Not vigorous.

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un- +‎ vigorous

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Examples

  • This was a commitment he began shortly before meeting my mother and she always hated it as it meant that for two weeks of the year he would disappear with an irritating combination of nonchalance and patriotism, while she had to deal with a pile of needy if unvigorous children.

    'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010

  • This was a commitment he began shortly before meeting my mother and she always hated it as it meant that for two weeks of the year he would disappear with an irritating combination of nonchalance and patriotism, while she had to deal with a pile of needy if unvigorous children.

    'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010

  • This was a commitment he began shortly before meeting my mother and she always hated it as it meant that for two weeks of the year he would disappear with an irritating combination of nonchalance and patriotism, while she had to deal with a pile of needy if unvigorous children.

    'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010

  • The thing that strikes me is how unvigorous McCain is compared to Palin.

    In which I say who won last night's debate and almost abandon my cruel neutrality pose. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Indians, whether from the continual use of the sweat-house, or from their filthiness, or the little ventilation in their habitations, are weak and unvigorous; spasms and rheumatics, to which they are so much subject, are the consequences of their customs.

    What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

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