lifelessly
- r without animation or vitality
lifelessly he performed the song - r in a lifeless manner
the girl lay in her arms lifelessly - r as if dead
- Nobody in the audience smiles or talks; the models look like they're on the Bataan death march; and people slowly, lifelessly clap at the end.
- On the branches of nearby trees were towels and shirts, a child's sunsuit, some underwearall hanging lifelessly amid the grey, acrid smoke that curled up from the crater for .
- After circling lifelessly in a low-earth orbit ever since its launch during a Discovery mission last April, the $85 million satellite had finally stirred, apparently revived by the .