slackadaisical

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adjective

Slipshod and lazy; lacking diligence and effort.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectiveslackadaisical (comparative more slackadaisical, superlative most slackadaisical)

comparative more slackadaisical · superlative most slackadaisical

  1. Slipshod and lazy; lacking diligence and effort.

    But they're worlds apart from the bleary, slackadaisical euphoria of Happy Mondays.

    2009, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise
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    Usually it is when a co-worker is making a mess of things, you know it, and your own workload is increasing in a direct inverse ratio to his slackadaisical ways.

    1986, George Mazzei, Moving Up, page 177

    Ah, the simple and majestic bean bag; this stalwart of youth, this icon of a slackadaisical generation, like a sceptered isle of laziness awash in the mellow fruitfulness of simpler days.

    2011, Michael Garrett Farrelly, Make Room for Teens!, page 7

Origin

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Chicago

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