unenergetic
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Black manages to get a comfortable position out of the opening, and as with Alekhine-Smyslov, benefits from some unenergetic play from his young adversary: 14.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
The big dragoon was as helpless as a baby; and Robert Audley, the most vacillating and unenergetic of men, found himself called upon to act for another.
From Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The admiral had confidence in officers and men, and they obeyed orders calmly and smilingly; and if they looked unenergetic, and at times listless, they quickly "perked up" when "business" was "toward."
From In the Yellow Sea by Henry Frith
As a matter of course he would be there to hear the charge, but, almost equally as a matter of course, he would be languid, silent, cross, and unenergetic.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
Well, nobody could call Brandon an unenergetic man—quite the reverse.
From The Cathedral by Sir Hugh Walpole