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Lackadaisical   /lˌækədˈeɪzɪkəl/   Listen
Lackadaisical

adjective
1.
Lacking spirit or liveliness.  Synonyms: dreamy, languid, languorous.  "A languid mood" , "A languid wave of the hand" , "A hot languorous afternoon"
2.
Idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way.  "A...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"






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"Lackadaisical" Quotes from Famous Books



... the indifference of her lackadaisical nature answered, "Yes, everything's make-believe, ...
— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... and rather silly and affected woman, Mrs. Charles M——, who had a great passion for dress, was saying one day to my mother, with a lackadaisical drawl she habitually made use of, "What do you do when you have a headache, or are bilious, or cross, or nervous, or out of spirits? I always change my dress; it does me so much good!" "Oh," said my mother, briskly, "I change the furniture." ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... Miss Cornelia Bugbee could do to transform this gay creature into a lackadaisical young lady; though, as she tried her very best to do so, none ought to blame her because she failed of success. All her stock of novels she lent to Laura, who read them, every one, in secret, skipping only the dull and didactic pages. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... more friends who exerted themselves for her husband. By inexcusable levity, ignorance, misjudgment, or heartless cupidity their daughter Lydia published, after the death of both, letters some of which contain courtship of the most lackadaisical sentimentality and others later expressions (which occasionally reach the scandalous) of weariness and disgust on Sterne's part. Other evidence of an indisputable character shows that he was, at least and best, an extravagant and mawkish philanderer with any girl or woman who would join ...
— The English Novel • George Saintsbury

... revolution, was a quiet backwater economically, although politically she caused turmoil by giving a home to the Fourth International. Germany became the leading iron and steel country, but it was not an aggressive leadership, rather it was a lackadaisical acceptance of a fortuitous role; while Britain, often on deathbed but never a corpse, without question took the ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore


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