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spiritlessly

spiritlessly:

1. ignāvē (for syn. v. adj.): to crop the herbage s., (of ailing cattle), i. carpere herbas, Virg. G. 3, 465: with ref. to style, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 67 (= tamely, without life or expressiveness).

2. abjectē (in a despairing, unmanly way): Join: abjecte, timide ignave, Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 55.

3. frīgĭdē (esp. of style, flatly, tamely): Quint.: Gell.

4. expr. by circuml. parum acriter s. alacriter: haud (parum) alacri animo, etc.: v. SPIRITED, SPIRITEDLY.

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