Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Like a (summer) afternoon; languid; enervating; inclining to a siesta, as if in the heat of the day.
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Examples
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Rome he writes of as an idle, afternoony sort of place from which it is difficult to depart.
The Life of Huxley 2003
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Rome he writes of as an idle, afternoony sort of place from which it is difficult to depart.
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Rome he writes of as an idle, afternoony sort of place from which it is difficult to depart.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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Rome he writes of as an idle, afternoony sort of place from which it is difficult to depart.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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There is something idle and afternoony about the air which whittles away one's resolution.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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