lifeless
adjective
not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate.
lifelessly
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a word derived from
lifeless.
Example Sentences
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Is he the man beneath the word “Harold,” holding the arrow that pierced his eye, or the axeman who flops lifelessly backward after a sword stroke?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
It’s been 60 years since Marilyn Monroe was discovered on Aug. 5, 1962, in her bed in her Brentwood home, her hand draped lifelessly over the phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
Their hands dangle lifelessly by their sides as they watch Pa lead us away.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
