listless
Example Sentences
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The opening ballad, “Risk It All,” is pretty but listless, with Mr. Mars singing over a gently plucked nylon-string guitar until a relaxed syncopated groove folds in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Raducanu suffered a listless second-round exit at January's Australian Open and subsequently split with coach Francisco Roig.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
The Treasury market moved in a listless fashion on Tuesday in response to the U.S. intervention in Venezuela — with traders more focused on a busy calendar week that includes Friday’s jobs report for December.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026
The dearth of data in a government shutdown, which is now in its 16th day, had created a landscape that left the market listless.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
He greeted the jeweler for whom he worked with a listless turn of his head.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.