adv. [-LY2.] In a listless manner; with languid indifference.
1693. Locke, Educ., § 116. 142. Whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 707. Where thou seest a single Sheep … Listlessly to crop the tender Grass.
1836–9. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Tales, vi. (1892), 354. The cold hands,… when she ceased to hold them, fell listlessly and heavily back on the coverlet.
1876. Miss Braddon, J. Haggard’s Dau., III. 3. She went about the house listlessly, yet was too restless to sit long at her work.
