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Definition of Lackadaisically
1. Adverb. In an idle and lackadaisical manner. "He was hanging around the house lackadaisically"
Definition of Lackadaisically
1. Adverb. In a lackadaisical manner; without enthusiasm or interest; perfunctorily. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lackadaisically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lackadaisically
Literary usage of Lackadaisically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edison Monthly by New York Edison Company (1914)
"Mother Dynamic I. Intermittently tingling tin- \vin->, Lackadaisically muml)ling
... Intermittently tingling the wires, Lackadaisically mumbling her tunes, ..."
2. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"It was poetry of the heart in its peaceful, not in its martial, moods, and it
met those moods not lackadaisically, but hopefully, cheerily, bravely. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Without much reluctance we the ship was steaming lackadaisically the evening
before, and also fewer When I woke the next morning squelched back to the hut ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1836)
"... in a periwig and hoop petticoats after the Thirty Years' War, knew not how to
dispose of her hands, and continued to play lackadaisically with her fan. ..."
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