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

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

The narrator appears to be only a step from a nervous breakdown, but the neurasthenic sensitivity is gestural, unearned, a bit melodramatic.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

In South Carolina, living in some kind of engineered community, she happily cares for a family with two spoiled children and a neurasthenic but kind mother.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2016

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