lethargic
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Lethargic closeouts on three-point shooters hurt Virginia in the first half, leaving the Cavaliers trailing 42-26 heading to the locker room.
From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2023
Lethargic and overfed from the holidays and with a major case of the Januaries one Saturday night, I wanted nothing more than to crawl under a blanket and watch a movie.
From Slate • May 24, 2018
Lethargic with grief and an embarrassment to his colleagues, Sen. Peter Tovy agrees to take a junket to a chimp refuge in Oklahoma, just to get him out of Parliament for a few days.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2016
Lethargic delegates stirred themselves, tired-looking men became animated, "everywhere was heard a loud chatter of expectancy."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sparta, Sparta, why in slumbers Lethargic dost thou lie?
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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