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The phrase "listless tone" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone's voice when it is expressed in a bored, apathetic, or uninterested manner. Example: She spoke with a listless tone, sounding exasperated and exhausted.
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Dakotah had been animated in our previous conversations, but now he spoke in a dull, listless tone and sat slouched in his chair, his head resting against the wall of the cubicle.
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Everything about "Jenniemae & James" is moist and listless, including its therapized tone, sloppy editing (egregious repetitions) and canned historical filler.
You might feel listless and blah.
Around Thanksgiving, she was feeling listless again.
Suddenly, blissful sanctuary gives way to a listless, lifeless room, all metal tones and obtrusive cherry-red leather accent pillows.
In a scene from "Transparent," the television series created by Jill Soloway, a women's-studies professor stands before a room of listless undergraduates, haranguing them in the accusatory tone favored by a certain strain of academic.
By Ariel Levy In a scene from "Transparent," the television series created by Jill Soloway, a women's-studies professor stands before a room of listless undergraduates, haranguing them in the accusatory tone favored by a certain strain of academic.
Just look at how listless the stock market has been.
As a result, many of the scenes are listless and indistinct; there's not much difference in energy or tone between the plotting of Antonio Johnn Feltch and Sebastian Ezra Knighthto to murder Alonsa (Caroline Stefanie Clay) and her counselor Gonzalo Yusef Buloss), and the smoochy canoodling of Fernando with Prospera's daughter, Miranda Rachel Matthews Blackk).
Parker made his name with bold, fuzzed-out guitar riffs, but virtually the only time a guitar appears on Currents, midway through the instrumental track Gossip, it sounds thin and trebly, listless and shattered, which seems in keeping with the album's overall tone.
Maintaining an amiable and innocently awed tone, he minds his science more than his fiction, delivering a listless romance upstaged by a cute robot, dancing aliens and Kinky Friedman as a Johnny Cash-style president of the United States.
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