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adjective

Spiritless adj.

Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.

Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. "A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone."

Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spiritless" Quotes from Famous Books

... name Crewe wanted to hear was not among them. He was compelled to include the name among half a dozen others he mentioned to the manager. He ascertained that Mr. Charles Holymead was a customer of the firm, but it was apparent from the manager's spiritless attitude towards Mr. Holymead that the famous K.C. was not a man who ran up a big bill with his hosier, or was very particular about what he wore. The world regarded some of the men of this type famous or distinguished, but in the hosier's mind they were ...

— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson

... professed friendship for the sake of the gain which they knew would accrue, for she was generous to a fault, bestowing with a lavish hand upon those whom she loved, and who had too often proved false, denouncing her as utterly spiritless and insipid. So often had she been deceived, that now, at the age of eighteen, she had learned to distrust her fellow creatures, and oftentimes in secret would she weep bitterly over her lonely condition, lamenting the plain face and unattractive manners, which she ...

— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes

... veteran infantry, the recruits so turbulent at noon were spiritless now in every sense of the word. Turning over his charge, as well as his account of their conduct and of his own, to the commander of the escort, Captain Muffet remained at department head-quarters long enough to impress the officials thereat on duty with his version of the ...

— Under Fire • Charles King

... his head, a flash of anger on his spiritless face. "You can't discuss Miss Oldham ...

— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

... so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night, And would have told him, half ...

— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

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