Languorous means lazy and unproductive. The word can be used to describe anything from a person who is sitting around doing nothing to a river that is moving very slowly.
The river was languorous and sluggish.
The person was languorous and inactive.
adjective
lacking spirit or liveliness
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That's why it's languorous.
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Moyers' documentaries are languorous, even soporific.
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Please turn off that languorous music.
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The stateman's speech was not professional, rather it was languorous.
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A secret languor was taking hold of my body.
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The percussion use the cadence of a languorous belly dance.
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The professor's class always has been languorous.
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Yet there would be benefits tied up in this languor.
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About three o'clock, I was attacked by an overpowering languor.
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It is threatened, from its very conception, with languor and coldness.