All 4 Uses of
listless
in
Seventeenth Summer
- She walked about listlessly, flipping off clover heads with a short stick, humming to herself in dejection.†
Chpt June
- Upstairs, Lorraine had been listlessly sorting out the things in her dresser drawers, arranging neat piles of hankies, cosmetics, and odd jewelry on the bed, and then putting them back in as great a disorder as before.†
Chpt June
- But neither of us looked at the displays for Margie was thinking about something--I could tell by her restlessness--and she walked along listlessly, her thoughts far away.†
Chpt Augu
- His thoughts must have dragged as slowly and listlessly as mine with the same painful dullness.
Chpt Augu *listlessly = with a lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
Definition:
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(listless) lacking energy and normal enthusiasm