[
US
/ˈɫɪstɫəsɫi/
]
[ UK /lˈɪstləsli/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪstləsli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a listless manner
they shook hands rather listlessly
How To Use listlessly In A Sentence
- Jim listlessly streeked his limbs after wake - up.
- Lena found her there a minute later, slumped down in the piles of paper, listlessly pawing through them, disconnected and withdrawn, a mental patient in a dayroom. NEVER WAVE GOODBYE
- I picked listlessly at my Black Angus steak, not quite al dente fettuccine, and sighed.
- If our sense of future is weak, we live listlessly.
- For a while, she didn't know what to do; she passed through the days listlessly, her mind not dwelling on any one subject for too long.
- Clicking his tongue, breathing heavily, standing listlessly and with a dull-witted look on his face at times, he couldn't even keep himself from yawning.
- When the sun fell in through the curtains of his bedroom window the next morning, she smiled listlessly.
- Goats, oxen and others wandered listlessly amongst the scattered waste and detritus.
- Lwi stopped listlessly, and he slid down in desperation and took the reins and began to lead him, insisting he keep moving, up and up the hili. The Goblin Mirror
- Usually, you would just sit listlessly, too hot to do anything else.