They shook hands rather listlessly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a listless mood; a listless handshake. From Dictionary.com.
Lucy picked up the book and glanced at the title listlessly, Under a. From Wordnik.com. [A Room with a View] Reference
He said, \ldblquote Hi, \rdblquote kind of listlessly, took off his hat and suit coat and unbuttoned his vest. From Wordnik.com. [Red Dog]
He was listlessly brushing up the cottage kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
"Oh, rather odd, I guess," and Joe spoke listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
The priestess nerved herself and reclined listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
"Tell anybody you're a mind to," she said listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
He took it listlessly, and read "Lescande, architect.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He ate the food that was placed before him listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Ideala was standing in a window, looking out listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Camors let his hand pass listlessly over the child's hair. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Faith, listlessly scrubbing a panful of turnips for dinner. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
"Why does the Court go to a Durward?" asked Sara listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
She listlessly extended her arm and filled it to the brim with. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A young man stood listlessly watching some anglers on a bridge. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Teenagers hopped along, listlessly. no radiowaves ravished my soul. From Wordnik.com. [Tickled pink] Reference
Kate was standing listlessly by the window looking into the street. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Anita had seated herself listlessly in one of the uncovered chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
But he now sat for hours listlessly and perfectly silent on the sofa. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
A man, who was looking listlessly in a window just ahead, turned away. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
He agreed listlessly, unwilling to cause poor Dido additional anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
I arose with my task undone and went listlessly down to the class-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Singing "Karma Chameleon," Moira would smile listlessly for the camera. From Wordnik.com. [Celestial] Reference
"Oh, we've clothes enough," admitted the girl of the Red Mill rather listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
"Come," he continued listlessly, "you may as well tell me all you know about it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
One passenger came on board, sauntering down the coach's length listlessly, wearily. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He settled back listlessly as the boy climbed out, holding the door for the dog to follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
About 50 people listlessly swap cleaning products for bags of flour or pots of homemade jam. From Wordnik.com. [Barter Binge] Reference
But at the close he suddenly cooled down, and assuming his recumbent position, said, listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
Residents who are too weak to make the hike across the mountains wait listlessly for U.N. aid convoys. From Wordnik.com. [The 'White Death' Trail] Reference
A girl of twelve or thirteen sat in it listlessly holding the reins and looking up and down the street. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
I went up to my own familiar, little room, and flung my hat and other out-door apparel listlessly upon the bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
He wandered aimlessly and listlessly along, unable yet to appreciate the full joy of his restoration to liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
I arose listlessly and sauntered down to the library where they had all three been just assembled in solemn conclave. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
With his eyes closed and his hands falling listlessly in front of him, he sat in a half-collapsed condition, like one in a stupor. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
For days he sat listlessly in his dacha an hour from Moscow, attended only by his wife, occasionally his daughter, and a handful of aides. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Roulette] Reference
We climb up and up -- Chrysantheme listlessly, affecting fatigue, under her paper parasol painted with pink butterflies on a black ground. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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