spiritless
adjective
without spirit.
spiritlessness
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a word derived from
spiritless.
Example Sentences
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But even the soda water, as if adjusting itself to the spiritlessness of the prisoners, refused to effervesce.
From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Albert Rhys Williams
In the Museum of the Capitol, there is one bust of an empress in which it is easy to fancy that one sees typified the spiritlessness of the life of the woman of the period.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
The "note" is still more evident in the "London Bootblack" and the "London Flower-girl," in which the outcast "East End" spiritlessness of the British capital is caught and fixed with a Zola-like veracity and vigor.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
Munificence is the mean between pettiness and vulgar profusion, good temper between spiritlessness and irascibility, politeness between rudeness and obsequiousness, modesty between shamelessness and bashfulness, temperance between insensibility and intemperance.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
There was a spiritlessness in this man that surprised me.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
