unenergetic

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Black manages to get a comfortable position out of the opening, and as with Alekhine-Smyslov, benefits from some unenergetic play from his young adversary: 14.

From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2023

He is a very good boy, rather idle and unenergetic, but he is a very honest, gentlemanlike little fellow, though I can't get him to construe as I wish.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

As it was, even that most unenergetic of young men, Dolly Longstaff, was moved to profound admiration.

From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony

He regarded the pitiless facts with a sunken, unenergetic attention, and wondered when he would be called again upstairs.

From None Other Gods by Benson, Robert Hugh

You composers," said Lothair, "get that idea into your heads either because you are absurdly unenergetic, or constitutionally indolent.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm