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or slumbrous
1
as in sleepy
desiring or needing sleep
parents putting their slumberous children to bed
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2
as in hypnotic
tending to cause sleep
the slumberous murmur of the wind in the trees
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Confederate monuments were not, after all, slumberous.
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Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
All differences of excellence, of position, of form are blurred by the slumberous acceptance.
—Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
With the exception of the minority of people who suffer sudden death, the vast majority of us experience a slumberous slippage from life.
—Sara Manning Peskin, M.d., New York Times, 11 July 2017
Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
All differences of excellence, of position, of form are blurred by the slumberous acceptance.
—Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
With the exception of the minority of people who suffer sudden death, the vast majority of us experience a slumberous slippage from life.
—Sara Manning Peskin, M.d., New York Times, 11 July 2017
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“Slumberous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slumberous. Accessed 9 Sep. 2024.
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