spiritless

How To Use spiritless In A Sentence

• Head low, ears flattened, she sagged, spiritless, almost quaking. DOUBTING THOMAS
• Though such an important chief, he is the meanest dressed of his subjects, — is always filthy, — ever greasy — eternally foul about the mouth; but these are mere eccentricities: as a wise judge, he is without parallel, always has a dodge ever ready for the abstraction of cloth from the spiritless Arab merchants, who trade with Unyanyembe every year; and disposes with ease of a judicial case which would overtask ordinary men. How I Found Livingstone
• It is been an absolute nightmare watching the spiritless performances of the team.
• In my two practices I had already learned that nothing infuriated Candy more than a spiritless cheerleader.
• Her old adulator, also, vanished from public places, while her young admirer and his father hovered about in them as usual, but spiritless, comfortless, and as if in the same search as himself. Camilla
• It is to be distinguished from his dread of a stagnant and spiritless despotism.
• In Delhi, India, it was described to perfection by one Indian journalist -- "spiritless". Rebecca Novick: Searching For the Olympic Spirit in New Delhi
• a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town
• The best labourers will be furnished by those races of mankind which are neither wholly spiritless nor yet overbold.
• The boy was somewhat spiritless and weary-looking; he could not be pronounced to be ill or really weak now, yet there was something wanting in him which ought to have been there, making him more atune to spring-time. The Heiress of Wyvern Court