How to Use lassitude in a Sentence

lassitude

noun
  • Symptoms of the disease include paleness and lassitude.
  • What Klein argues for is not civility, but a kind of slow suicide by civic lassitude.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2011
  • The movie is dogged by wobbly reasoning and dramaturgical lassitude, but at least one actor tries to spice it up.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
  • But despite these peaks, the city still feels off, gnawed by anxiety, lassitude, and resignation.
    — Curbed, 15 Dec. 2022
  • This could be due to lassitude or desire to shirk responsibility for tough questions.
    — Mark Medish, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Today, paralyzing lassitude is often seen as a symptom of disease rather than of turpitude.
    — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
  • Paul Valéry wrote that a work of art is never completed but abandoned, perhaps through lassitude, yet that note of troubled exhaustion finds no echo here.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2017
  • But in keeping with the troubled lassitude that marked the whole season, the consequences were muted, and more depressing than violent.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 8 June 2016
  • But this is a case where the infamous lassitude of the federal bureaucracy may work in America's favor.
    — Tyler Cowen, Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
  • In response to the fiscal lassitude, Indian government 10-year bond yields are ticking up, despite the slower growth.
    — Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The movie’s rhythms are unhurried, though for the most part not indulgently so, and fit both the period and Antonio’s uneasy lassitude (which makes a stark contrast with the slaves’ work).
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • There has been, perhaps, no greater demonstration of strategic lassitude since the West watched passively as Germany rearmed in the 1930s.
    — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
  • In their infinite wisdom, or out of their indomitable lassitude, the American people have given the state of Iowa the right of prima nocte in the selection of our presidents.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 June 2015
  • Rather than solely signifying the cursed lassitude of middle-aged masculinity, the term can also gesture at something both self-conscious and fashionably nostalgic.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 June 2022
  • But the contrast between the strength of the preshow exhibition (all those video eyes, making contact) and the lassitude of the show itself highlights how much even our finest theater artists are struggling to choreograph an actorless space.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 July 2021
  • A lot of it was simple apathy, and the steady abandonment on the part of the country of the obligations of self-government, and the concomitant lassitude as to their duties by the politicians elected by an apathetic electorate.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 July 2015
  • The President’s lassitude was inversely related to his fiefdom’s pointless industry.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • Even minor characters—like the dead-eyed, constantly texting office manager, Stacy, played with droll lassitude by Salahuddin’s sister Zuri—have their own story arcs and funny quirks.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
  • In the lead-up to a big race, such lassitude can be compounded by a sudden severe case of germophobia, characterized by obsessive hand-washing, decreased displays of physical affection, and reluctance to take care of coughing toddlers.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Trump is not just aggressively but lawlessly exercising the interests of his place, counting on Congress, after decades of lassitude regarding its interests, being an ineffective combatant.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The ensemble presents a relatively broadminded approach in its three concerts at Carnegie Hall, under the command of Valery Gergiev, who, depending on circumstance, will project either fervor or lassitude.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Two to four days later, agitation may turn into sleepiness, depression, and lassitude; abdominal pain may concentrate in the upper right quadrant; and the liver might become enlarged, according to the WHO.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024
  • More broadly, the lazy river is a sign of American indolence, of our collective postindustrial lassitude, the nation that once tamed the Mississippi now slumbering poolside, scrolling through Instagram.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The Ethics Committee cannot complete an investigation, or release to the public any details of an investigation, without Democratic and Republican support, which, in our era, helpfully explains its lassitude.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 7 June 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'lassitude.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: