spiritlessly
- a word derived from spiritless.
Example Sentences
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Yet Alfred Hitchcock has done so without any discernible effort, spiritlessly following the events to their evitable inconclusion.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We didn't have a fight or an argument or a dispute," says Jackson spiritlessly.
From Time Magazine Archive
We spent the weekend spiritlessly sightseeing, assailed by unspoken anxieties.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
"Yes," said Suzette, spiritlessly, "Mr. Putney said we ought."
From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean
"Yes, Ma'am," she said, spiritlessly, "but my head aches."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
