spiritlessness

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Noun
  • More severe signs of heat stroke include lethargy, weakness, the loss of the ability to stand, confusion, loss of coordination, vomiting and diarrhea.
    Tanya Edwards, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Symptoms include fatigue, excessive panting, disorientation, lethargy, discomfort, collapse and seizures.
    Darius Johnson, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • The clinical data demonstrated significant improvements in wakefulness and reductions in excessive daytime sleepiness at week eight, outperforming the placebo with a generally favorable safety profile.
    Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • In the study, people who reported excessive daytime sleepiness had higher odds of hypertension than those who didn’t.
    Zoe Cunniffe, Health, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • In fact, the battle could have cleared House of the Dragon of its reputation for sluggishness.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • Yet sluggishness at the very top is masking dynamism throughout the rest of the list, as a new generation of firms—whether Vietnamese conglomerates, Singaporean banks, or once-loss-making digital platforms—is capturing a greater share of regional revenue and profits.
    Andrew Staples, Fortune, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • However, this mentality of laziness is rapidly fading.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • Impatience is a form of laziness, and the cure for impatience is to slow way down.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • Eventually, weariness begins to affect more than just your mood.
    Scott Hanson, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The war-weariness in Sadeq’s words reflects the exhaustion felt throughout Lebanon, but especially among the Shiites who form a third of its 6 million residents.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Trump’s steamrolling of anything, including the Constitution, that might impede his authoritarian project has made the limpness of the Democratic opposition more conspicuous.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Both for the islanders and for us, the summer shimmers with a hallucinatory mixture of languor and emotional speed, as summers do in childhood.
    Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • Breaking Bad took place in the languor of suburbia and Better Call Saul in the corrupt organs of the legal system, but Vince Gilligan’s latest show Pluribus makes a home out of the stranger substrate of speculative sci-fi.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Although a genius at depicting indolence, Hockney himself worked with a rigorous commitment.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
  • The rapid growth of AI data centers is simply forcing us to reckon with many years of indolence.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
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“Spiritlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritlessness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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