Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a listless manner; without attention; heedlessly.
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- adverb In a
listless manner, without energy.
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- adverb in a listless manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lucy picked up the book and glanced at the title listlessly, Under a
A Room with a View 1924
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A half-hearted fire burned on the hearth, and watching it listlessly from the cot lay a boy about twice his age, David thought.
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"S'long -- Mr. Barton!" she called listlessly over the other, and started on, stumblingly, clatteringly, up the abruptly steep and precipitous mountain trail -- a little dust-colored gnome on a dust-colored horse, with the dutiful gray pinking cautiously along behind her.
Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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“An ambulance over here,” a kid with spikes in his hair calls listlessly to a uniformed monitor nearby.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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“An ambulance over here,” a kid with spikes in his hair calls listlessly to a uniformed monitor nearby.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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“An ambulance over here,” a kid with spikes in his hair calls listlessly to a uniformed monitor nearby.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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He said, \ldblquote Hi, \rdblquote kind of listlessly, took off his hat and suit coat and unbuttoned his vest.
Red Dog Buchanan, James David 1979
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Here in lower/upper/falling listlessly towards the bottom of the barrel middle-income America.
Christopher Caen: Occupy What? Christopher Caen 2011
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I start dialing again as I hover in the bathroom watching unzippered elephants shuffle listlessly into unisex stalls and blasting out minutes later on electrified rails.
Mr. Sunrise Brett Rosenblatt 2011
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So far Rooney's unworldly football powers have seen him break a foot at Euro 2004, break a foot before the Germany World Cup and recover in time to get sent off in the quarter-final, failing to qualify for the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland and harrumphing listlessly around in South Africa last year complaining of boredom and apparently distracted by "events off the field".
Wayne Rooney can be England's top player – as long as he isn't picked | Harry Pearson 2011
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