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Definition of Languorously
1. Adverb. In a languorous manner. "He was sprawling languorously on the sofa"
Definition of Languorously
1. Adverb. In a languorous manner, without exertion, lazily. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Languorously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Languorously
Literary usage of Languorously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"She has broken the alabaster box Of ointment. She anoints the feet of her god In
a passion of fragrance. languorously She caresses them with the dark of her ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"On one side the bosom of the Pacific rises and falls languorously under a genial
sun; on the other the line of rugged hills, in their shaggy mantles of ..."
3. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"(languorously, but with a faint suggestion of humor.) Is that really you, Sir John?
JOHN. (Lively^ and far from being impressed by VIDA. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"The children of Keats are people like Rossetti, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, whose
eyes were fixed sadly and languorously on the sunset of things. ..."
5. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1921)
"VIDA. Anything more inopportune! I never dreamed she'd come— [CYNTHIA comes in
veiled. As siie walks quickly into the room, VIDA greets her languorously. ..."
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