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languidly, adv.|ˈlæŋgwɪdlɪ| [f. languid a. + -ly2.] In a languid manner.
1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xlii. 386 The Menstruum also working as languidly upon the coral, as it did before they were put into the Receiver. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 99 Peevishness..languidly discharges itself upon every thing which comes in its way. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 86 When the Nerves perform their Office too languidly. 1798Malthus Popul. (1817) I. 247 With a population nearly stationary, or at most increasing very languidly. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 548 They either neglected it altogether, or executed it languidly and tardily. |