lassitude
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Frustrated with himself, and with Krantz, McCarthy scribbled on a draft page, “mild horror, creeping bibliophobia, locomotor ataxia, / general lassitude and despondency.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In a 1936 speech to young people, President Franklin Roosevelt, dismissing experts proclaiming 1930s youth as “lost” to anxiety, depression and lassitude, declared that young people were right to be unhappy.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
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
Soccer’s lassitude and swooped in and got him to sign.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2021
They all lounged in glamorous lassitude on the sofa, and on the rug, while heavy rock, which Ifemelu thought was unharmonious noise, played on the CD player.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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