spiritlessness

You see, the genuine spiritlessness is wanting; that's what's the trouble.

In its wake he felt a spiritlessness, as if the very core of him, which had just moments before been filled with life, had now dissolved into bitter emptiness.

Bright Nights Some people let the winter get them down, but is there any need for such spiritlessness as long as Mary Cleere Haran is around?

A Coronal - " "A Coronal would not allow his lieutenants to see him in a condition of indolence and spiritlessness," Deliamber said sharply.

One could argue that the playwright here is envisioning a brave new blend of activism and idealism to replace spiritlessness and complacency, but that only superimposes a contemporary point upon arguments that are fundamentally passe.

There is little need to dwell upon the amount of aid thus given to the State's progress in self-aggrandizement, or to show in detail or by illustration the courses by which this spiritlessness promotes the State's steady policy of intervention, exaction and overbuilding.

The brief flush of happiness which had colored his face and put life into his green eyes abruptly was replaced with the same old woeful spiritlessness as he sighed and said dolefully, "An' it's I can but hope that it's I'll be livin' lang enough fr tae see Tim's son succeed him, is a', Harold.