languidly

From languid +‎ -ly.

languidly (comparative more languidly, superlative most languidly)

1. In a languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.

   He languidly waved his limp wrist, glad to see us, but not wanting to expend the energy to let us know that.

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

     Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2:

     “It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” said Lord Henry, languidly.

• laudingly