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[LAS-i-tood', LAS-i-tyood'] 
1. a state of weariness characterized by listlessness or a lack of vitality; lethargy: "I won't tolerate such lassitude on a Friday night, especially when there are places to go and people to see!"
Origin:
Before 1425; borrowed from Middle French, 'lassitude'; from Latin, 'lassitudo': weariness, from 'lassus': weary. In action:
"On March 21, 1972, Neumann sent a cable from Kabul to Washington, saying: 'There is an atmosphere here of lassitude, or resignation, as if the elan vital of the government has become exhausted, and there is growing criticism of the king and his alleged inability or unwillingness to make decisions.'
A year later, on March 30, 1973, a State Department report stamped 'confidential' said political reforms the king was pursuing were being hampered by a 'party-less parliament, the powerless prime minister and a king reluctant either to use or delegate his authority.'
'Both the executive and legislative branches look to the king for direction, support and authority. ... As the king has endeavored to stay aloof from day-to-day operations, the result has been long periods of government paralysis punctuated by royal action.'"
"U.S. saw ex-Afghan king as ineffectual leader," USA Today.com (November 24, 2001).
"Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness."
Robertson Davies (b. 1913). Canadian novelist and journalist. "The Writer�s Week," Toronto Daily Star (March 28, 1959).
"An atmosphere of despair and lassitude pervaded my 652-room estate, and the staff languished about in the most gumptionless fashion it had ever been my displeasure to witness. It was almost as if my strange transformation was part of some sort of sea-change, as everyone at my estate felt with their bare nerves the tragedy of human life: its slow, cruel path from birth to death, the brevity of joy, the impossibility of dreams, and all that malarkey that gets in the way of having the meals served on time."
T. Herman Zweibel. "Check Off One Orchard," The Onion.com.
"Now coffee shop campaigners are determined to take advantage of the government's softer stance on certain drugs.
And with coffee shops in the planning across the country from Manchester to Worthing, some say Britain is going down the wrong path.
'I think they're entirely wrong and I think the consequences for society of legalizing cannabis will be bad in many ways,' says Daily Mail editor Peter Hitchens.
'It will increase crime, it will increase lassitude and sloth, it will increase the general level of drug-taking in society, because it will introduce more people to the idea that drug-taking is nothing wrong.'"
Hala Gorani. "UK pot smokers plan cannabis cafes," CNN.com (March 20, 2002).
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