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Definition
lacking energy and normal enthusiasm
- I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the 'Georgics' where tomorrow's lesson began.Book 3 — Lena Lingard (18% in)
- I remember those girls merely as faces in the schoolroom, gay and rosy, or listless and dull, cut off below the shoulders, like cherubs, by the ink-smeared tops of the high desks that were surely put there to make us round-shouldered and hollow-chested.Book 2 — The Hired Girls (50% in)
- The girls sat listless, leaning against each other.Book 2 — The Hired Girls (92% in)
There are no more uses of "listless" in My Antonia.
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