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

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

The admiral had confidence in officers and men, and they obeyed orders calmly and smilingly; and if they looked unenergetic, and at times listless, they quickly "perked up" when "business" was "toward."

From In the Yellow Sea by Frith, Henry

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

"I think Ida is about as unenergetic a girl as I ever knew."

From The Motor Girls by Penrose, Margaret