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langorously
adverb as in leisurely
Example Sentences
Even when Cattrall swears, she has the sexiest voice: langorously seductive, with sultry eyes that make her look as if she's waking from a catnap.
The pieces you'll hear at the Proms – from the Sapphic Poem, a langorously meandering blend of cello concerto and tone poem that Raphael Wallfisch plays on 24 July to the Sea Reivers on the Last Night, a discarded scherzo from the Hebridean Symphony – give a generous summary of the luxurious but easily digestible range and reach of Bantock's orchestral imagination: think colourful Wagnerian harmony with a dash of Celtic modality and a soupçon of Rimsky-inflected flair and you'll be on the right track.
She would play langorously with this sense of loneliness.
Once, though, she told him how she wished it had been: that he had taken her for a canoe ride, strummed a ukulele, sang and asked her to marry him, while she trailed a hand langorously in the water.
His ears ring sweetly, his head swims pleasantly, his limbs are langorously heavy, his hunger grows, especially for sweets.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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