lifelessly

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In some ways, this was all predictable, the Lakers playing lifelessly with an eye on the upcoming week off after an emotionally and physically draining first 52 games of the season.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

She was still wearing her maroon traditional garb, her arms falling lifelessly from the white sheet that barely covered her.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2022

In his review, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described the new movie as "overwhelmingly mediocre and pointless, contrived and lifelessly convoluted to the point of gibberish".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2022

Now lifelessly orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres after running out of fuel in late 2018, Dawn documented the geology of Vesta from 2011 to 2012.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2021

Their feathery roots were still wedged in the soil, like the exposed veins of a heart, their caps dangling lifelessly from the badger’s fist.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman