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

It’s also inevitable that some day soon the U.S. will play an opponent able to seize on its mid-game lassitude and ram a couple of quick goals home.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2021

As Stevenson writes: “The fierce and euphoric idealism that had arisen in the 1960s was giving way to doubt and paranoia, a kind of creeping corporate co-optation and, ultimately, downbeat social lassitude and introverted resignation.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2021

But the medication produced lassitude and I felt constantly on the verge of nausea.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin