The word 'spiritless' is a valid word in written English.
It means lacking energy or enthusiasm, or having no spirit or vitality. One can use this word in various contexts, such as: - The team's performance was spiritless and lacked any real passion. - After the long and tedious meeting, she left feeling spiritless and drained. - The once vibrant and lively town has now become a spiritless and dull place. - Despite their best efforts, the students' spiritless chants failed to rile up the crowd at the pep rally. Example: The spiritless atmosphere in the office was palpable, as everyone seemed to be weighed down by the gloomy news of layoffs.
DJ Taylor in the Spectator found it rather "spiritless", although when the action shifts to Pakistan in the early 1980s, "the writing starts to fizz up in all kinds of unexpected ways".
C. J. Brougham: Person spiritless round flushed people?
UNTIL recently the jobs market had been one of the livelier parts of a mostly spiritless economy.
The argument, which was highly polemical and overgeneralized, nevertheless promoted the ideal of the learned scholar-gentleman who had no pecuniary or political interests and was unintimidated by the overly polished and spiritless examples of professional painting.
Kōkan became adept at imitating Harunobu's style, but he soon moved away from what he considered the spiritless ukiyo-e tradition and came under the influence of Western realistic painting, with its techniques of shading and perspective.
Unfortunately, spiritless copies were made, and these led to classification of idealist works as "frigid".
At the same time, he developed a conception of nature that provided an alternative to the mathematical and spiritless mechanism that the Enlightenment seemed to offer.
Except for "The Man Who Wasn't There," a dud academic exercise, nothing the Coens did was spiritless, and a little more than a decade ago they stopped banging movie references together and made two harmonious masterpieces in a row, the first a tragic comedy, the second a slacker hymn of praise so gentle and goofy that it has floated off the screen into the fantasy life of the nation.
Michelangelo Antonioni, working with Gabriele Ferzetti in "L'Avventura" (1960) and with Marcello Mastroianni in "La Notte" (1961), made movies about handsome, spiritless men who had lost themselves in too much easy sex and money, and couldn't find anything to hold on to in a valueless society.
The October election in England, following a remarkably spiritless impersonal campaign, largely conducted on television, was the most unpopular, uninspired and lacklustre election that anyone can remember.
I saw how sad he was, and therefore how the best and highest that the "world" has to offer was in fact empty, spiritless; because after all he is a great New Yorker, a man of affairs, a success at thirty-five, a famous young editor.
