Sentence examples for most listless from inspiring English sources

These are the most listless of bums.

And her books are manufactured exclusively for women in the most listless, decorative fashion.

At the other end of the scale, the most listless relegation fight in living memory signed off in fitting style.

It could be argued that the Jaguars still have not faced a winning team -- not when the Dolphins played one of the most listless games in memory -- but for now, doubts about the Jaguars' ability have been erased.

Balotelli was simply wrong for Liverpool, a terrible fit for a manager who prizes movement and adaptability in his forward line and who never had the time or the patience to bend the most listless, room temperature of maverick footballers to his will.

They provided little resistance on defense against an undrafted quarterback making his NFL debut, did nothing offensively after driving for as field goal on the opening drive and put together the most listless performance yet in coach Jon Gruden's second stint as coach.

The over‐the‐counter market was listless with most issues, declining fractionally.

Six weeks into its season, the Metropolitan Opera has presented all three pinnacles of the standard repertory, the so-called ABC's of opera: Verdi's "Aida," Puccini's "La Bohème" and Bizet's "Carmen". While none of these revivals has been thrilling, most dismaying is the listless "Aida" that opened Thursday.

While the Devils played with inspiration in their first meeting of the season against division rivals, the Penguins were listless for the most part.

(An American writer of the time quoted in the book, Hester Donaldson Jenkins, described despairingly how women in the Ottoman empire spent most of their time in listless passivity, or as she put it: "sitting").

And he was indeed the most awkward sort of teenager: listless, oversexed, plagued with disfiguring acne and, just as inconveniently, with a deeply rooted romanticism: the kind of boy who would hop a southbound train because he'd been listening to Arlo Guthrie singing "City of New Orleans".