listlessly

Adverb

1. In a listless manner; without energy or enthusiasm.
   • The lamb bunted several irresponsive objects - never its dam's udder - baaing listlessly. - 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St...
   • And as a child stares at the bare walls of a narrow hut, so the gods looked all listlessly upon the worlds, saying: “Will no new thing be?” - 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and...
   • He thrust his head into the aisle. "Boy!" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. "What will you have? Beer?" - 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521: