inanition
Example Sentences
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There were times in “High Life,” by contrast, when my attention began to wander through space—always a hazard, I guess, when the main menace is moral inanition and a heedless despair.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 5, 2019
America, which is entertaining itself to inanition, has never experienced a scarcity of entertainment.
From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2017
He became a sort of Gallic Coolidge decorated with Continental charm, and he presided over an era of prosperous inanition that collapsed in the debacle of the Franco-Prussian war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some people believe that humorous fiction in The New Yorker has long been legally dead of inanition.
From Time Magazine Archive
I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
