"listlessly" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

Forms: more listlessly [comparative], most listlessly [superlative]
Etymology: From listless + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|listless|ly}} listless + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} listlessly (comparative more listlessly, superlative most listlessly)
  1. In a listless manner; without energy or enthusiasm.
    Sense id: en-listlessly-en-adv-J~1lB4fa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:",
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          "ref": "1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 31:",
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          "ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:",
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          "ref": "2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.",
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