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languishing

/lang-gwi-shing/US // ˈlæŋ gwɪ ʃɪŋ //

慵懒,慵懒的,枯燥无味,枯燥乏味

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : becoming languid, in any way.
    • : expressive of languor; indicating tender, sentimental melancholy: a languishing sigh.
    • : lingering: a languishing death.

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Examples

  • As it turns out, tech leaders are learning to evolve during this languishing outbreak.

  • To this day, Tavakoli is languishing in prison for nothing more than demanding basic human rights.

  • It simultaneously reveals the absurdity of dictatorship and gives comfort to those languishing under an impossible reality.

  • Languishing in a prison cell in southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, 21-year-old Razie Ebrahimi awaits her date with the gallows.

  • Goodlatte chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where JASTA now sits languishing.

  • Dissidents languishing in prison must know that they are not forgotten.

  • If he had expected to find her languishing, reproachful, or indulging in sentimental tears, he must have been greatly surprised.

  • His cheeks were the color of crushed grapes, and his dusky eyes glowed with a languishing fire.

  • At that moment I saw him suffering because of me; I saw his eyes languishing, his lips pale and parched with fever.

  • These institutions were languishing for support, and in a great degree destitute of the public sympathy.

  • I wrote to you, mentioning him lightly; I did not dare confide in you, and I was languishing for some word of him.