lassitude

Example Sentences

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And it carried an implicit warning: If America ever ceases to be as Hilda—godly, uncompromising, moral, dutiful and good—the moss-covered lassitude of Hawthorne’s Rome awaits us too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

His tone, however, belied the lassitude of a man who increasingly struggles to hide his age behind all that makeup.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

Soccer’s lassitude and swooped in and got him to sign.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2021

For a time, she posted photos of herself on social media in pre-pandemic dress-up clothes — an antidote to the sartorial lassitude of quarantine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2020

A deadly lassitude had taken hold of him.

From "1984" by George Orwell