lackadaisically

Example Sentences

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Fatsis: The United States was chasing lackadaisically and passing listlessly.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2017

Before: I was binge-watching Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix show “Master of None” and lackadaisically shopping online.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2015

Vendors carrying wide wicker baskets piled high with cherry tomatoes stop to stare as I plod by, making my way along the narrow main road that snakes lackadaisically across several ridges.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2015

George, who works lackadaisically at a nonprofit foundation of his mother’s choosing, expends most of his energy arranging for a performance of “The Burning Papers,” a crazed-sounding opera he’s written about the decline of civilization.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2015

He lost interest in the game; lackadaisically he placed the buttons on their squares as the numbers were shouted, finally to brush them all aside and desert the game.

From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley