listless

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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

Christina Applegate is where she spent many listless, painful nights over the last year working on her memoir: in bed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

A grim run was capped by a listless second-round exit at the US Open weeks later.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

The Treasury market moved in a listless fashion on Tuesday in response to the U.S. intervention in Venezuela — with traders more focused on a busy calendar week that includes Friday’s jobs report for December.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 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