lassitudinous

At times, Tocqueville’s analyses can grow quite technical — he was a lawyer, after all — and he often sets up exhaustive comparison-contrasts between the United States and France, or between an austere, industrious New England and a lassitudinous South sapped of vigor by reliance on slavery.

He told Reporters that he enjoyed the lassitudinous Washington climate during July and August.

It was also "cleaning day" at the Merriams' and, though Missy felt lassitudinous and headachy, she put extra vim into her share of the work; for she wished to coax from mother a new sash, at least.

When Missy sat in the classroom, exhausted with the lassitudinous warmth of spring and with the painful uncertainty of whether she'd be called to translate the Vergil passage she hadn't mastered, visions of that coming glory would rise to brighten weary hours; and the last thing at night, in falling asleep, as the moon stole in tenderly to touch her smiling face, she took them to her dreams.