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  • But the words were muttered listlessly, in a semi-trance.  (source)
    listlessly = with a lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
  • "Fortuna Major," said Harry listlessly.  (source)
  • None of this mattered now; I would have listlessly agreed to anything.  (source)
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  • His hands lay listless.  (source)
    listless = lacking energy
  • The muddy waters after-the-flood churned listlessly south,  (source)
    listlessly = with a lack of energy
  • In the late afternoon, we approached Peking. I instantly revived from the listlessness of the heat and my hunger.  (source)
    listlessness = lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • ...the cattle moved thin and listless over the red and rootless earth.  (source)
    listless = without energy or enthusiasm
  • Magda just stared at me like she didn't believe what I'd said. She went back inside, listlessly waving her hand in the air. "Just don't get burned, that's all I gotta say. Don't get burned."  (source)
    listlessly = with a lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
  • The nationalist on the stepladder, his quick hands slashing through the air, was whipping his growing audience out of its morning listlessness.  (source)
    listlessness = lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
  • But Mama was listless and Esperanza often found her weeping in silence.†  (source)
  • They would inevitably surface within a rectangle of barbed wire, would find themselves greeted listlessly by dying Russians who spoke no English, who had no food or useful information or escape plans of their own.  (source)
    listlessly = with a lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
  • But more than by anything else, he was disgusted by himself, by his perfumed hair, by the smell of wine from his mouth, by the flabby tiredness and listlessness of his skin.  (source)
    listlessness = lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
  • Morning brought a listless agitation to the hallway.†  (source)
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