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lifelessly

  • a word derived from lifeless.
    lifeless
    adjective
    not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate.

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An unfortunate presentation of three golden unitards designed by Halston for Graham’s 1981 “Acts of Light” makes them look more lumpy than revealing as they lifelessly cap the display.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Teammates remembered him sitting up and joking 15 minutes after he collapsed lifelessly to the court.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2024

She was still wearing her maroon traditional garb, her arms falling lifelessly from the white sheet that barely covered her.

From Washington Post Sep. 30, 2022

In his review, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described the new movie as "overwhelmingly mediocre and pointless, contrived and lifelessly convoluted to the point of gibberish".

From BBC Jun. 10, 2022

His yellow eyes stared lifelessly at the clouds, and flies collected on his open mouth.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson