spiritlessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritlessness
Noun
  • Symptoms also include lethargy, dehydration and vomiting, and the animals can die.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Symptoms in cats include fever, low appetite, lethargy, reddened or inflamed eyes, discharge from eyes and nose, and difficulty breathing.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Eastwood stars in both, and both suffer from some of the late-career languors that started to creep into his movies after a certain point, mostly due to a tendency to let dialogue scenes play on and on without much regard to rhythm or pace.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • That there was this kind of languor, a little bit of maturity.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The book is thematically framed by the two extremes of contemporary London: the charmed experiences of the elite, leisured classes in the West End and the extreme poverty and indolence of the East End.
    Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • African clergy are distinctly firmer than those in the West, perhaps a consequence of the social turmoil on their continent compared to the indolence of Europe and North America.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Their bodies go into a torpor where their heart rate and metabolism slows 20% to 50%.
    Damon Arthur, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Amid the torpor of their burgeoning love, the corpses start to stack up.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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