All 10 Uses of
listless
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado.†
Chpt 4 *
- All this is bitter hard; and many a man and city and people have found in it excuse for sulking, and brooding, and listless waiting.†
Chpt 5
- A young black fellow sat in it driving listlessly, his elbows on his knees.†
Chpt 8
- Without doubt, some pressure was necessary at the beginning of the free-labor system to keep the listless and lazy at work; and even to-day the mass of the Negro laborers need stricter guardianship than most Northern laborers.†
Chpt 8
- One was driving, listlessly bent forward, his elbows on his knees,—a happy-go-lucky, careless picture of irresponsibility.†
Chpt 8
- What can it expect but crime and listlessness, offset here and there by the dogged struggles of the fortunate and more determined who are themselves buoyed by the hope that in due time the country will come to its senses?†
Chpt 9
- Huddled as he was in a few centres like Philadelphia, New York, and New Orleans, the masses of the freedmen sank into poverty and listlessness; but not all of them.†
Chpt 10
- But to doubt the worth of his life-work,—to doubt the destiny and capability of the race his soul loved because it was his; to find listless squalor instead of eager endeavor; to hear his own lips whispering, "They do not care; they cannot know; they are dumb driven cattle,—why cast your pearls before swine?†
Chpt 12
- He looked thoughtfully across the hall, and wondered why the beautiful gray-haired woman looked so listless, and what the little man could be whispering about.†
Chpt 13
- He would not like to be listless and idle, he thought, for he felt with the music the movement of power within him.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(listless) lacking energy and normal enthusiasm