Filled with melancholy and despondency.
1
Mensforth interpreted my listless reply as either aloofness or lack of interest.
2
Dull and listless seemed to be the best you could hope for.
3
Her preoccupation continued as they crossed the square; her movements were listless.
4
Bolitho looked at Jenour, and past him to the waiting, listless ships.
5
She read the letter and let it fall from her listless fingers.
1
He was quite dispirited, facing the prospect of bankruptcy at that point.
2
The Concern Worldwide chief executive does admit to being dispirited at times.
3
Where Geertz saw dispirited, tradition-bound irrationality among villagers, Dunham saw potential vitality.
4
Ginevra lived her full life in a ball-room; elsewhere she drooped dispirited.
5
The very presence of the automaton chilled and dispirited the impatient visitor.
6
Unable to pursue his work, he sank into an understandably dispirited obscurity.
7
You can definitely feel elated at one moment and dispirited the next.
8
He spent most of his time in dull reading and dispirited walking.
9
Twice did the brave William lead his dispirited troops against the tyrant.
10
Amblecope, however, rallied, and remarked in a rather tired and dispirited voice:
11
The commander-in-chief did his best to ensure discipline among his dispirited troops.
12
The Whigs, lately vanquished and dispirited, were full of hope and ardour.
13
And then at once he walked quietly beside her, chilled and dispirited.
14
It was Miriam Nesbit, whose actions were dispirited and showed no enthusiasm.
15
The leaderless, dispirited team fell easy victims to the rival pitcher's curves.
16
Riggs followed him, hatless, his thin shoulders pinched together, tired and dispirited.
