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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

... 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 ...

— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller

... Gripe the scrivener. A lazy, lackadaisical, fine city lady, who thinks "a woman must be of mechanic mold who is either troubled or pleased with anything her husband can do" (act i. 3). She has "wit and beauty, with a fool to her husband," but though "fool," a ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... point of economic and civil development, and which show the most considerable survivals of status and of predatory institutions. That is to say, the chivalric ideal is best preserved in those existing communities which are substantially least modern. Survivals of this lackadaisical or romantic ideal occur freely in the tastes of the well-to-do classes of Continental countries. In modern communities which have reached the higher levels of industrial development, the upper leisure class has accumulated so ...

— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen

... we must not overlook the fact that a man's mental state at the time of performing a physical feat is a very important determining factor in the result of the performance. A powerful but lackadaisical fellow might, with only a few dollars at stake, make a very poor showing; yet to preserve his life he might make a really wonderful leap. What effect, then, did mental condition exert on a man like Peters under the circumstances attending ...

— A Strange Discovery • Charles Romyn Dake

Words linked to "Lackadaisical" : lethargic, unenrgetic, idle