adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her performance was dull and listless .
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She had to keep thinking up new ways to hold the attention of her listless pupils.
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The last few years of my mother's life she was tired and listless most of the time.
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Tim is listless on the job and keeps making dumb mistakes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For a couple of hours they played a listless game of Scrabble in front of the fireplace.
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He completely lost interest in feeding and became very listless .
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If Upper Gumtree proved listless , so much the better for Flokati's chances.
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It was the peace of death and sorrow, in a land weary of war, and made listless by loss.
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She had been pale, listless , disaffected and Katherine was stricken by remorse.
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The appeal fell on listless ears.
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Weary unto death, listless and depressed, Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan.