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languidly

[ UK /lˈæŋɡwɪdli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a languid and lethargic manner
    the men languidly put on their jackets

How To Use languidly In A Sentence

  • Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
  • Icebergs would languidly crumble to nothing just outside the mouth of the harbour.
  • The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners. The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
  • Fran didn't use deckchairs, just natty old towels upon which she languidly stretched as if she was on a feather bed.
  • This showed a dark-suited gentleman, reclining languidly on a cushioned backrest, gazing through the eyepiece of an immense telescope.
  • The city's 130,000 inhabitants chat languidly in doorways, grinning at locals and passing tourists.
  • the men languidly put on their jackets
  • “He nuzzled his face against mine until he found my lips, then he kissed me, slow and gentle, the flow of molten rock swelling languidly in the dark at the center of the earth, until my shaking slowed.” and 2009 Delete Key Awards Finalist #8 — Stephenie Meyer’s ‘The Host’ « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • She languidly draws herself up to a sitting position.
  • A heavily veiled lady, whom no one had hitherto noticed, rose languidly from a seat and greeted him in a clear, penetrating voice. Literature
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