lassitude
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And it carried an implicit warning: If America ever ceases to be as Hilda—godly, uncompromising, moral, dutiful and good—the moss-covered lassitude of Hawthorne’s Rome awaits us too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
His tone, however, belied the lassitude of a man who increasingly struggles to hide his age behind all that makeup.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
It’s also inevitable that some day soon the U.S. will play an opponent able to seize on its mid-game lassitude and ram a couple of quick goals home.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2021
As Stevenson writes: “The fierce and euphoric idealism that had arisen in the 1960s was giving way to doubt and paranoia, a kind of creeping corporate co-optation and, ultimately, downbeat social lassitude and introverted resignation.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2021
Susan Calvin, except for two hours of resentful lassitude, experienced nothing approaching sleep.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing lassitude
Frankenstein
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