languid
She had stretched out languidly on the bed.
He played the slow movements languidly.
Balloons bobbed languidly in the still afternoon air.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Bore and bored
banal
banally
be (stuck) in a grooveidiom
be watching the clockidiom
bend
blah
boil
bore
bore the ass off someoneidiom
languid
listless
listlessly
listlessness
outgrow
rut
uncompelling
underemployed
underwhelm
underwhelmed
undynamic
Examples of languidly
languidly
She, the beautiful, would lie down and
languidly extend her luminous white wrist.
This one flows by
languidly, chronicling inner journeys.
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The war carried on
languidly, with neither side achieving any lasting advantage until 1747.
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She gazes
languidly at the viewer while she toys with the large pearls around her neck in an indolent gesture, reinforcing the sensuality of the model.
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