languishingly
- a word derived from languish.
- a word derived from languishing.
Example Sentences
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Hippy folded his arms across his chest and looked languishingly at the three girls.
From Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
When she sailed into the parlour Phyllida was languishingly occupied with a blue vase of pot-pourri, and the parlour fire was trying to burn up beneath a weight of blackened notepaper.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
“Oh, your grace,” she asked, languishingly, “tell us in a breath, tell us, who is this dainty beau of the ball?”
From Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time by Hazelton, George C.
The page obeys, and Octavio sent him with a sigh, and eyes that languishingly told him he did it with regret.
From Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Behn, Aphra
