spiritlessly

Example Sentences

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"We didn't have a fight or an argument or a dispute," says Jackson spiritlessly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet Alfred Hitchcock has done so without any discernible effort, spiritlessly following the events to their evitable inconclusion.

From Time Magazine Archive

We spent the weekend spiritlessly sightseeing, assailed by unspoken anxieties.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"Yes, Ma'am," she said, spiritlessly, "but my head aches."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

Although it is June, and warm of mid-days, a fire burns on the hearth, slowly and spiritlessly, as if the task of imparting cheerfulness to the room were beyond its strength.

From In the Valley by Frederic, Harold