Both Uses
listless
in
The Great Fire
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- Chamberlin, for instance, felt: "The firemen kept at work fighting the flames — stupidly and listlessly, for they had worked hard all of Saturday night and most of Sunday, and had been enervated by the whisky, which is always copiously poured on such occasions."†
p. 33.9listlessly = with a lack of energy and normal enthusiasm
- The heat and dry air had left twelve-year-old Claire Innes tired and listless all day.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(listless) lacking energy and normal enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)