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ennui

[ahn-wee, ahn-wee, ahn-nwee] / ɑnˈwi, ˈɑn wi, ɑ̃ˈnwi /


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The event's pop-up bar boasted a handful of cocktails, including "Death in the Afternoon," whose ingredients were listed as "Champagne, Absinthe, and Ennui," the latter of which greatly cheered up the goth in me.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2023

Ennui and tropical torpor figure in many Buffett songs.

From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2020

The “Puppet Time” ensemble includes a self-strumming ukulele, an otter suited up for a space launch, and an anthropomorphic loaf of existentialist French bread named Ennui Le Triste.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018

Ennui and despair are the province of the Great American Novel.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2018

Yet the chapter on Ennui is tolerably sensible.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert




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