torpid - TOR-PID - lax, sloth-like, listless, sluggish

Example: "Sarah Palin's book, 'Going Rogue,' far from being torpid, depicts the McCain campaign as overscripted, defeatist, disorganized and dunder-headed - slow to shift focus from the Iraq war to the cratering economy, insufficiently tough on Mr. Obama and contradictory in its media strategy."