hebetude
Example Sentences
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He detested the mob for its human hebetude.
From Time Magazine Archive
So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even in her dullest moments of physical and mental hebetude she felt something pressing upon her from within for accomplishment, like a piece of unfinished business that she must presently rouse herself to put through.
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
We are on the eve of a Jubilee Year, when the halcyon shall plume his wing, and we shall hear much oratorical trash and hebetude about the peacefulness of this happy reign.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
He sat upon a low chair, his long legs, his violet-circled eyes staring out with a look of hebetude and overwhelming fatigue.
From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
