listless
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The Dodgers look completely listless, and waiting for slumping veterans like Teoscar Hernández and Kyle Tucker to snap out of it is a losing strategy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
In Georgia Bernstein’s alluringly listless “Night Nurse,” something is afoot at a luxury retirement community.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
It was originally written about missing someone so intensely she felt listless and depressed.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The opening ballad, “Risk It All,” is pretty but listless, with Mr. Mars singing over a gently plucked nylon-string guitar until a relaxed syncopated groove folds in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
But she did not dial; she felt too listless and ill to want anything: a burden which closed off the future and any possibilities which it might once have contained.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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