listlessly

Definition of listlesslynext

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for listlessly
Adverb
  • If the power comes flickering on for a few precious hours in the middle of the night, that’s when Cubans now rise to wearily cook and iron clothes.
    Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
  • One wearily pushes hers in a creaky pram.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
Adverb
  • The rooms Each room here channels a new type of contemporary African design—there are no throwaway uses of Ankara cloth to lazily signal to the continent.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The shallow freshwater coursed lazily among the sawgrass, the water stretching from the Atlantic Coastal Ridge to the east to the highlands of what is now part of the Big Cypress National Preserve to the west.
    Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Melbourne, Australia — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight.
    CBS News, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Her game is languidly devastating.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Your 9th House of Learning awakens as an instinctive New Moon invites you to explore a class, your own philosophies, or (more casually) a potential vacation destination.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Amini was a soccer player on Iran’s national futsal team until 2017, when she was pictured casually playing soccer with some male friends in Switzerland – a crime, she was told by Iran’s governing regime.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • Lincoln-Way East started sluggishly, to say the least, and trailed 7-4 after one quarter before Brown entered the game and scored seven points in the second quarter.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Cold weather slows the chemical reactions in these batteries, with the lithium ions moving more sluggishly through the electrolyte liquid.
    Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Listlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/listlessly. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.

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