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Languidly

Languid \Lan"guid\, a. [L. languidus, fr. languere to be faint or languid: cf. F. languide. See Languish.]

  1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. `` Languid, powerless limbs. ''
    --Armstrong.

    Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue.
    --Addison.

  2. Slow in progress; tardy. `` No motion so swift or languid.''
    --Bentley.

  3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.

    Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon.
    --Keats.

    Their idleness, aimless flirtations and languid airs.
    --W. Black.

    Syn: Feeble; weak; faint; sickly; pining; exhausted; weary; listless; heavy; dull; heartless. -- Lan"guid*ly, adv. -- Lan"guid*ness, n.

Wiktionary
languidly

adv. In a languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.

WordNet
languidly

adv. in a languid and lethargic manner; "the men languidly put on their jackets"

Usage examples of "languidly".

Vanora gave Bors a heavy, lingering kiss and a penetrating look filled with erotic promise, then got up and began to meander languidly across the yard.

He held a fly whisk and moved it languidly from side to side to keep the flies from the little bags of cloves, nutmeg, mastic and cinnamon and the little glasses of laurel and myrtle oil.

They discussed the Dinka languidly but without broaching what was still puzzling them.

As Domini leaned out of the window, and the salt crystals sparkled to her eyes, and the palms swayed languidly above the waters, and the rose and mauve of the hills, the red and orange of the earth, streamed by in the flames of the sun before the passing train like a barbaric procession, to the sound of the hidden drums, the cry of the hidden priest, and all the whispering melodies of these strange and unknown lives, tears started into her eyes.

In troughs cut into the wharf, merfolk lounged at their ease, eellike hair writhing languidly around their heads.

Goodworth put his hands in his pockets, yawned disconsolately, and looked, with a languidly satirical expression in his eyes, to see what his grandson would do next.

However, spinies have no natural enemies, so they merely gazed at the figure with languidly disapproving eyes and returned to their crunchy but nourishing fare.

But on the open water birds waded, ancestors of flamingos and avocets, and huge water lilies rested languidly on the surface.

Fifteen klicks south by southeast, an entire belchfield of them, rising slowly toward the cap ice just as languidly as the wax blobs did in his lava lamp.

As Phillips came up the passageway that led to the main bath he saw fifteen or twenty of them lolling in the water or padding languidly about, while temporaries of the dark-skinned Mohenjo-daro type served them drinks and pungent little morsels of spiced meat as though this were some sort of luxury resort.

Caralie smiled and stretched languidly, her sensual movement reawakening a burst of desire inside him.

In the Eight Trigrams Battle Formation, which he signaled by languidly waving his white feather fan.

She sipped languidly at her wine, letting her gaze rest on Breck, her eyes twinkling over the rim of the goblet.

She could see only a few daughters arranged languidly around the gardens, only a few servants, and barely enough troops to secure the gatehouse.

Kapash merely smiled up at Zainal, obviously delighting in his discomposure, tilting languidly back in his chair.