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lackadaisical
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    I am willing to live with a certain amount of sloppiness, of laziness, of the lackadaisical life.†  (source)
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    After school, if I was bored, it was easy enough to go hang out with one of the big lackadaisical stoner crowds who floated around between Del Taco and the kiddie arcades on the Strip.†  (source)
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    Anatole got to spend his days playing bottle-cap checkers with a pair of lackadaisical guards, who let him read and write anything as long as he didn't escape.†  (source)
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    No lackadaisical ladies—no blasted rolling eyes.†  (source)
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    So he waited another hour on the bench outside the jefe's door, watching the sentry move lackadaisically to and fro in the hot sun.†  (source)
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    He was a fierce field contender but a lackadaisical, amused sort of student in the classrooms.†  (source)
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    Then he veered toward the loading dock, intending to help in carrying or just to walk past the two lackadaisical sentries.†  (source)
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    We still haven't discussed labels yet and the fact that we just made up within the past half hour makes my lackadaisical use of the word boyfriend feel like something Natty-boy would have said to me.†  (source)
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    He choked up even more a second later when he spied Colonel Korn's tubby monochrome figure trotting up the curved, wide, yellow stone staircase toward him in lackadaisical haste from the great dilapidated lobby below with its lofty walls of cracked dark marble and circular floor of cracked grimy tile.†  (source)
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    I even pushed one of my receivers when he mocked my use of the word lackadaisical (directed at the receivers, I might add) as "a pretty big word for a homeschooler."†  (source)
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    Quiet, lackadaisical, like most rich Eastern women (Liza had never known a rich Eastern woman), but on the other hand docile and respectful.†  (source)
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    IN MY EARPIECE I heard the hush of the void that hangs over the earth, and then out of that ether, the sound of the phone ringing far away, its high-pitched summons so brisk and efficient, so different from the lackadaisical analog clicks and the coarse ring when I dialed an Addis Ababa number.†  (source)
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    They were in a lackadaisical mood, laughing and joking with each other, trying, it seemed, not to think too much about soccer.†  (source)
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