languishment
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Based on Stewart’s recent cookbook of the same title, the show represents a fresh attempt at the genre after the languishment of a baking program in the kitschy backwoods of the Hallmark Channel.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2012
Exile hath worn my heart and my spirit with languishment, And evil fortune hath turned my very lovers unkind.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
Thy sire is all distraught with languishment for thee; Since death upon thee came, his hopes are gone awry.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
Notice his embroidered silken coat, his splendid lace cravat, the languishment of his large foolish eyes, the indubitable touch of Spanish red on those smooth cheeks.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
Bann'd be those musty mews, where we have spent Our youthful days in paled languishment!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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