neurasthenic

Example Sentences

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But on Tuesday, remarkably little sounded discordant, fidgeting, screaming or neurasthenic.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

People have always read fiction hoping to better themselves, but Marcel Proust, a sickly, snobbish neurasthenic so sensitive that he worked and slept in a cork-lined bedroom, seems a dubious source for life lessons.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2021

I’d absorbed the cultural cliche of the neurasthenic poetess in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Rudolf Besier’s Broadway hit that spawned three films and seven TV dramas.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2021

With a neurasthenic mother now in charge, the Nichols family hobbled forward, neither well-to-do nor destitute.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2021

Had Izzy been a different kind of child, this might have led her to be cautious, or neurasthenic, or paranoid.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng