spiritlessness

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Noun
  • This includes lethargy, weakness, discolored gums, or changes in urine color, warns April Summers, DVM, emergency veterinarian at AVSG Internal Medicine, Emergency & Critical Care.
    Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 23 May 2026
  • The eaglet began showing signs of illness on May 14, with symptoms including regurgitating food, a disinterest in eating, lethargy and weakness, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
    Finch Walker, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Common signs include loud snoring, waking up gasping, morning headaches and daytime sleepiness that doesn’t improve with more hours in bed.
    Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
  • Shift Work Sleep Disorder, or SWSD, is the clinical name for the persistent insomnia or excessive sleepiness that lasts more than three months and is tied directly to a person’s work schedule.
    Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Djokovic, 38, was barely moving between points during the second set, and Prižmić exploited his sluggishness with consistently punishing drop shots.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • There was noticeable and annoying lag and sluggishness in the Windows desktop and Windows Explorer, not even counting Chrome or Office, with apps taking some 10 seconds to even open.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • The existential risk of AI wiping out humans or enslaving us could be predicated on our laziness and lack of concern about small signs.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Quitting is rarely about laziness.
    JD Barker, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • There is something gentle and teddy-bear-ish about him, but it’s tempered by a New Yorker’s world-weariness.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • Offline — or at least on the French web — the 45-year-old has been more celebrated for his melancholy, for that singular blend of wiriness and weariness that makes so many of his characters feel like young men with old souls.
    Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Trump’s steamrolling of anything, including the Constitution, that might impede his authoritarian project has made the limpness of the Democratic opposition more conspicuous.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • As the camera glides in and around a roller-skating rink, where much of the action takes place, Decker and Shlesinger achieve and sustain a terrific balance of comic velocity and erotic languor.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Breaking Bad took place in the languor of suburbia and Better Call Saul in the corrupt organs of the legal system, but Vince Gilligan’s latest show Pluribus makes a home out of the stranger substrate of speculative sci-fi.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The rapid growth of AI data centers is simply forcing us to reckon with many years of indolence.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Part of his great accomplishment was to take the European aesthetic of beauty and redefine it for the South, with its heat and its billboards, its indolence and humor and thick nights.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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