Both Uses
listless
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
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- Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself.†
p. 172.9 *
- But now they are quite apathetic and listless; most of them do not masturbate any more, they are so feeble, though otherwise things come to such a pass that whole huts full of them do it.†
p. 193.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(listless) lacking energy and normal enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)