torpid—sluggish; slow and dull; lethargic; apathetic.
macabre—literally, dance of death; grim; horrible; gruesome.
invidiously—inciting ill will, odium, or envy.
laconic—brief or terse in speech or expression.
furtive—stealthy; sneaky; surreptitious.
wraith—ghost; the spectral figure of a person seen as a premonition of death.
