All 3 Uses of
listless
in
My Antonia
- 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 girls sat listless, leaning against each other.†
Book 2
- I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the 'Georgics' where tomorrow's lesson began.†
Book 3 *listlessly = with a lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
Definition:
lacking energy and normal enthusiasm