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

As a matter of course he would be there to hear the charge, but, almost equally as a matter of course, he would be languid, silent, cross, and unenergetic.

From Phineas Redux 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

The big dragoon was as helpless as a baby; and Robert Audley, the most vacillating and unenergetic of men, found himself called upon to act for another.

From Lady Audley's Secret by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)