lazily

comparative more lazily · superlative most lazily

1. In a lazy manner.

   She lazily scrubbed the pot, but without some real elbow grease it wasn't going to get clean.

2. In a slow manner.

   “In Egypt the sun is warm on the green palm-trees, and the crocodiles lie in the mud and look lazily about them.”

   1888, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: Duckworth, published 1928, page 28

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   Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203

   Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.

   1946 January and February, 'Talisman', “Bückeburg to Aberayron”, in Railway Magazine, page 41