LANGUIDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does languidly mean? 

• LANGUIDLY (adverb)
  The adverb LANGUIDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a languid and lethargic manner

  Familiarity information: LANGUIDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANGUIDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a languid and lethargic manner

Context example:

the men languidly put on their jackets

Pertainym:

languid (lacking spirit or liveliness)

 Context examples 

He was languidly interested by the papers in his hand, and page after page was turned as he followed the argument of the lawyer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She took but a little, and that languidly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He did it languidly, and, when he had finished, sat on the edge of the bed staring blankly before him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Lynn; and Mary Ingram listened languidly to the gallant speeches of the other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

William, determined to make this last day a day of thorough enjoyment, was out snipe-shooting; Edmund, she had too much reason to suppose, was at the Parsonage; and left alone to bear the worrying of Mrs. Norris, who was cross because the housekeeper would have her own way with the supper, and whom she could not avoid though the housekeeper might, Fanny was worn down at last to think everything an evil belonging to the ball, and when sent off with a parting worry to dress, moved as languidly towards her own room, and felt as incapable of happiness as if she had been allowed no share in it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He seemed floating languidly in a sea of dreamy vision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He found Holmes leaning languidly against the mantelpiece, resigned and patient, endeavouring to conceal his irrepressible yawns.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the kitchen he found Jim, the other boarder, eating mush very languidly, with a sick, far-away look in his eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)