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Lackadaisical

adjective

Lacking spirit or liveliness. Synonyms: dreamy, languid, languorous. "A languid mood" , "A languid wave of the hand" , "A hot languorous afternoon"

Idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way. "A...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"

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"Lackadaisical" Quotes from Famous Books

... all absurdly unreasonable," she cried. "What have I ever done to make him turn white or red, or to 'burst out despairingly,' and all that kind of sentimental nonsense? Because he is lackadaisical and is experiencing strange, vague emotions, must I be afflicted in like manner? Must I break faith with one I do love and do violence to my own feelings, just because this farmer wants me to? You know what's the matter with him—Clara saw at a glance—and the course I'm ...

— Without a Home • E. P. Roe

... knowledge sitting inside a ramshackle little gharry that fled round the corner in a white smother of dust. He departed, disappeared, vanished, absconded; and absurdly enough it looked as though he had taken that gharry with him, for never again did I come across a sorrel pony with a slit ear and a lackadaisical Tamil driver afflicted by a sore foot. The Pacific is indeed big; but whether he found a place for a display of his talents in it or not, the fact remains he had flown into space like a witch on a broomstick. ...

— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad

... indifference of her lackadaisical nature answered, "Yes, everything's make-believe, except ...

— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... of his business day. Sometimes she had felt that there was something insulting in the promptness of her inquiry, "Has anything gone wrong, Joe?" But Severance had never appeared to feel the insult; only as time went on, had grown more and more ready, as her interest became more and more lackadaisical, to pour out the troubles and, much more rarely, the joys of his day. One of the things she secretly admired most about Farron was his independence of her in such matters. No half-contemptuous question would elicit confidence ...

— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller

... the town unearthed the fact that it resembled many of its compeers. The oven-hot iron roofs were coated with red dust; a few lackadaisical larrikins upheld occasional corner posts; dogs conducted municipal meetings here and there; the ugliness of the horses tied to the street posts, where they baked in the sun while their riders guzzled in the prolific "pubs.," ...

— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin

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