Example Sentences

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"We didn't have a fight or an argument or a dispute," says Jackson spiritlessly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet Alfred Hitchcock has done so without any discernible effort, spiritlessly following the events to their evitable inconclusion.

From Time Magazine Archive

We spent the weekend spiritlessly sightseeing, assailed by unspoken anxieties.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Hence my tailor would doubtless have wept at the sight; shoulders drooping spiritlessly, and sleeves turned up, and trousers likewise.

From The Range Dwellers by Bower, B. M.

Unable to slip back in triumph to my studies I elected to stroll spiritlessly into the billiard room where certainly I had no business.

From Tales Of Hearsay by Conrad, Joseph