listless

The absence of policy initiatives and a record-setting government shutdown lend the impression of an aloof and listless GOP.

The listless team of the previous two games was gone.

The dearth of data in a government shutdown, which is now in its 16th day, had created a landscape that left the market listless.

After seeing his team look listless the previous week against Northwestern, particularly in the game’s early going, Skipper adopted the word “strain” as a rallying cry going into the game against the Nittany Lions.

The next year was more of the same: The team losing its identity while coasting down the stretch, before being swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks in three listless games.