Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
Source: tatoeba (9593511)
Languidly
Synonyms for "languidly" (11 found)
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4 translations across 4 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- lĂ nguidament adv (in a languid manner)
Italian
1 entries- languidamente adv (in a languid manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- languidamente adv (in a languid manner)
Spanish
1 entries- lánguidamente adv (in a languid manner)
Sample sentences
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He got up and stretched his spidery frame languidly.
Source: tatoeba (12031085)
He languidly waved his limp wrist, glad to see us, but not wanting to expend the energy to let us know that.
Source: wiktionary
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
Source: wiktionary
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