All 9 Uses of
listless
in
War and Peace
- "What can one say about it?" replied the prince in a cold, listless tone.†
Chpt 1
- But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon nothing.†
Chpt 1
- Looking on the bridge he saw equally uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the bridge.†
Chpt 2
- Rostov looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and around him.†
Chpt 2 *
- The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited.†
Chpt 3
- Natasha had no desire to go out anywhere and wandered from room to room like a shadow, idle and listless; she wept secretly at night and did not go to her mother in the evenings.†
Chpt 6
- Black robber bees are swiftly and stealthily prowling about the combs, and the short home bees, shriveled and listless as if they were old, creep slowly about without trying to hinder the robbers, having lost all motive and all sense of life.†
Chpt 11
- In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bees sitting back to back and guarding the high mystery of generation, he sees hundreds of dull, listless, and sleepy shells of bees.†
Chpt 11
- When the news of Petya's death had come she had been a fresh and vigorous woman of fifty, but a month later she left her room a listless old woman taking no interest in life.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(listless) lacking energy and normal enthusiasm