languorous
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Mr. Miller, a writer of great narrative authority, specializes in historical thrillers that move at a languorous pace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Cooked, it mellows into some like a sautéed onion: soft, loose, languorous, curling in on itself as its flavor deepens.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025
His languorous voice can tend towards the melancholy, but the lyrics are full of hope.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024
The rhymed verse the characters speak in doesn’t at all hinder them from expressing themselves colloquially, in idioms that sound better with a languorous Southern lilt.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024
His swiftly moving figure was in strange contrast to the languorous slow motion of his hands just a few minutes before.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Vocabulary lists containing languorous
Grade 11, List 5
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