torpid
adjective
inactive or sluggish.
torpidly
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a word derived from
torpid.
Example Sentences
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Cinema because the actors in it move, however torpidly; absurd because it is film-flam posing as philosophy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mother, torpidly played by Myrna Loy, takes a back seat but comes into her own when father dies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Black, bewildered, a horseshoe in his pocket, he sprawled torpidly on a bench behind his counsel.
From Time Magazine Archive
They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome.
From Time Magazine Archive
I could remember staring torpidly through these windows a hundred times out at the elms of the Center Common.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
