languidlyadv.

1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ix. lxxxii. 190 All melted in pure love, languidly sweet.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xlii. 386 The Menstruum also working as languidly upon the coral, as it did before they were put into the Receiver.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. viii. 149 Peevishness..languidly discharges itself upon every thing which comes in its Way.

1759 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 8) 87 When the Nerves perform their Office too languidly.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. ix. 122 With a population nearly stationary, or at most increasing very languidly.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 548 They either neglected it altogether, or executed it languidly and tardily.

1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxx. 259 Bond..languidly thanked him for his faithful and unwearied exertions.

1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Property 209 He..took his hat, and languidly up the hot streets crowded with carriages, reeking with dusty odours, wended his way home.

1942 National Geographic Mag. June 730/1 There are mustard-yellow and wine-red sea fans that wave languidly in the current.

1978 R. Butler Against Wind (1979) iv. 53 He gestured languidly in the general direction of the little cluster of brick buildings and pipe-clayed houses.

2000 Book July–Aug. 74/2 Krantz takes her time with the first half of this book, languidly focusing on the midcentury life of an affluent and intelligent single girl.