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

It had not much to give, but, with worldly wisdom, thought it better to propitiate an active, useful member, than to help those who were more unenergetic, though they had large families to provide for.

From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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 A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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

He regarded the pitiless facts with a sunken, unenergetic attention, and wondered when he would be called again upstairs.

From None Other Gods by Benson, Robert Hugh