LISTLESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does listlessly mean? 

• LISTLESSLY (adverb)
  The adverb LISTLESSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a listless manner

  Familiarity information: LISTLESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LISTLESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a listless manner

Context example:

they shook hands rather listlessly

Pertainym:

listless (lacking zest or vivacity)

 Context examples 

Harrison stood listlessly at the wheel, half supporting himself by it, as though wearied by the weight of his flesh.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He lay listlessly as I entered the room, but the sight of me brought a gleam of recognition to his eyes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This morning, as I sat watching the wan countenance of my friend—his eyes half closed and his limbs hanging listlessly—I was roused by half a dozen of the sailors, who demanded admission into the cabin.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It had begun to grow dark, and I had shut the window (I had been lying, for the most part, with my head upon the sill, by turns crying, dozing, and looking listlessly out), when the key was turned, and Miss Murdstone came in with some bread and meat, and milk.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A roar of applause burst from the crossbowmen; but at the instant that the bolt struck its mark old Johnston, who had stood listlessly with arrow on string, bent his bow and sped a shaft through the body of the falcon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While Laurie listlessly watched the procession of priests under their canopies, white-veiled nuns bearing lighted tapers, and some brotherhood in blue chanting as they walked, Amy watched him, and felt a new sort of shyness steal over her, for he was changed, and she could not find the merry-faced boy she left in the moody-looking man beside her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her head hung listlessly upon her breast, but as she raised it and turned her dull eyes upon us I saw that her pupils were dark dots in the centre of the broad grey iris.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The younger ruler had sat listlessly upon his stool with the two puppet monarchs enthroned behind him, but of a sudden a dark shadow passed over his face, and he sprang to his feet in one of those gusts of passion which were the single blot upon his noble and generous character.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)