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How to pronounce lifelessly in English?

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Synonyms deadly
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lifelessly he performed the song.
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the girl lay in her arms lifelessly.

Examples of lifelessly

lifelessly
Trot turned abruptly to face a corner, his bad arm flopping lifelessly.
From the edition.cnn.com
Leaves on its willow trees drooped lifelessly from the branches.
From the chron.com
Some look as if they could be drowned men, floating lifelessly.
From the nytimes.com
Now he is lolling almost lifelessly in a chair.
From the independent.co.uk
By the swimming pool, a Western couple clad in white are sprawled lifelessly near an ice bucket and some wineglasses.
From the nytimes.com
After making a steal, she curled off to the side on the fast break and stopped with her arm dangling lifelessly.
From the usatoday.com
Butler chews lifelessly on every cliched line, while Foxx, as the crusading man of the law who must stop him, is just plain lifeless.
From the kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
The drama never rises above soap-opera level and the 14 songs by composer Alex Beaupain, lifelessly performed by cast members, are vapidly pretentious.
From the bloomberg.com
He hung there lifelessly, looking less like a haunted specter in search of redemption through a woman's love than a display in a shop window at Barneys.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Without animation or vitality; "lifelessly he performed the song"
  • In a lifeless manner; "the girl lay in her arms lifelessly"
  • Deadly: as if dead
  • (lifeless) destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"
  • (lifeless) lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
  • (lifeless) inanimate; having no life; dead; having lost life; uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life; dull or lacking vitality; departed
  • (Lifeless) A term describing coffee that does not have acidity, caused by not brewing long enough.
  • (Lifeless) Lacking in acidity, similar to Thin.