'lassitude' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an noun which means a state of physical or mental weariness. Example: After a long day of work, she felt a deep lassitude come over her body.
In New York, the entire winter has been filled with weather advisories, along with freezing rain, decreased blood circulation, sleet, swipes right, unused gym memberships, compromised public transportation infrastructure, depression, lassitude, lonely gloves, too much binge-watching, opportunistic slush of a certain sentience and the first 2,000 words of novels in various states of abandonment.
But political lassitude means that this will not get done before the next hurricane season.
Years of official lassitude, inefficiency and outright corruption have slowly poisoned the city's law-enforcement.
In Italy, a series of well-meaning prime ministers have been unable to overcome the formidable vested interests that see reforms as a threat to the special deals they have carved out.This combination of size and lassitude is dangerous, because France and Italy are at once too big to fail and too big to bail out.
The lassitude of the players, more inert than inept, made many Iranians assume they had been either bribed or threatened to ensure no repetition of the unseemly 1997 celebrations.Soon, hopes that Mr Khatami would challenge the conservative clerics who hold ultimate power in Iran turned to doubts.
Lima, Peru's capital of 8m people, is shedding its former air of provincial lassitude and turning into a bustling metropolis.The city is the visible face of a boom that has made Peru South America's fastest-growing economy (see chart).
Those willing to pay subscription fees or to have a clever technician break encoded blockers can tune in to dozens more.The sated lassitude that overtakes fasters after their sunset meal, the long hours of darkness and the fact that many sleep during daytime to reduce the rigours of the fast combine to make the 30 days of Ramadan, which started this year on September 1st, prime viewing time.
Her photographic career was sporadic, with spells of intense activity alternating with bouts of lassitude.
ReprintsBut lassitude and inefficiency generally reign.
Party workers reported a worrying countrywide lassitude.
Clear Light of Day (1980), considered the author's most successful work, is praised for its highly evocative portrait of two sisters caught in the lassitude of Indian life.
