Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lazy manner; sluggishly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a lazy manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a lazy manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a slow and lazy manner
  • adverb in an idle manner

Etymologies

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lazy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I'm ridiculously deadline-driven, so unless there's a performance on the calendar, most things just remain lazily hanging about in the notebook.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • I'm ridiculously deadline-driven, so unless there's a performance on the calendar, most things just remain lazily hanging about in the notebook.

    Suavity of harmonious strains Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • THE STEAM rises lazily from the surface of the tea.

    Excerpt: The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri 2000

  • Gray tendrils of smoke rose lazily from the backyards of a dozen or so homes.

    Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua; a village of potters 1997

  • Gray tendrils of smoke rose lazily from the backyards of a dozen or so homes.

    Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua; a village of potters 1997

  • He hurried up the walk laid across the neat little grass plot, sent a humbly grateful glance up to the stars-and-stripes that fluttered lazily from the short flagstaff, and went in as though he had business there, and as though that business was urgent.

    The Lookout Man B. M. Bower 1905

  • It was just light enough for her to see that this person was a gentleman, well-dressed and young; and with a certain lazily graceful way of moving, and it was just light enough for this person to see that the half-frightened face she lifted was pretty and youthful.

    That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

  • Suddenly he was vexatiously conscious of hearing his name lazily called, and looking up found that he was on the outskirts of the town, and interrogated by two horsemen.

    In the Carquinez Woods Bret Harte 1869

  • "Pooh," replied the other, rising lazily from the table; "she is like the rest of women, I suppose - they are all variations on the same air - who is this you are talking about?"

    Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

  • Rodney breathes the word lazily out into the air and smacks his other hand into John's chest.

    Wraithbait 2008

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