spirited
adjective
having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc..
unspirited
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a word derived from
spirited.
Example Sentences
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But last week as 60,000 gathered before the canopied platform at Merdeka Palace, Indonesia's ruler put on a strangely muted, flat and unspirited show.
From Time Magazine Archive
The very essence of anger is that it is unspirited and automatic.
From The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak by Lee, Gerald Stanley
The plates are in general rather curious than ably executed; and compared with what Flaxman has done for Homer and Æschylus, are tasteless and unspirited.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
Then picture the same area filled with disconnected, spotty, dyspeptic, and unspirited flower-beds and rose bushes!
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
It was significant of the mastery Mrs. Gano had obtained over her not unspirited children that, without being formally forbidden to play at home, Ethan never dared touch the piano the whole vacation through.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth
