languidly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin languidusder. Middle French languidebor. Latin languidusbor. English languid Middle English -ly English -ly English languidly From languid + -ly.

1. In a languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.

   “He languidly waved his limp wrist, glad to see us, but not wanting to expend the energy to let us know that.”

   “Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.”