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

He is a very good boy, rather idle and unenergetic, but he is a very honest gentlemanlike little fellow, though I can't get him to construe as I wish.

From The History of Pendennis by Thackeray, William Makepeace

To this cause, I am convinced, is to be attributed their thin faces, their pale skins, their unenergetic temperament—unenergetic as regards physical motion—and their early old age.

From North America — Volume 1 by Trollope, Anthony

As it was, even that most unenergetic of young men, Dolly Longstaff, was moved to profound admiration.

From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony

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 Frith, Henry