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lackadaisical

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Now, enter the Grinch—or rather, the Senate’s lackadaisical pace.

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The case, identified in court records as the pseudonymous “Guardianship of Keanu,” has baffled appeals court judges, who have admonished both parties for their unconventional and lackadaisical arrangement to conceive a child.

Previously skeptical mother superior has to admit to Jessica, the anxious mom, that this lackadaisical teenager just might have special powers of his own—but the jury is still out.

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“People become much more lackadaisical, especially young people, because no one’s getting the disease,” he says.

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To Beal, lackadaisical defense led to poor three-point shooting.

Their defense is lackadaisical, their forwards frequently inept.

Now is not the time for lackadaisical, quiet and deferential diplomacy.

That's the impression you get with their lackadaisical approach to filling the job.

The horsemeat scandal has shown just how lackadaisical we are toward the content of processed food here.

She rejected that the idea it was lackadaisical policing that is responsible for such crimes.

The stones and metal rattle inEach dry and withering ear, As lackadaisical they loll,And preen themselves, and peer.

Survivals of this lackadaisical or romantic ideal occur freely in the tastes of the well-to-do classes of Continental countries.

He had seen Eugene around town, knew no harm of him except that he was lackadaisical and rather moody.

I will command myself; I will be just what I have always been—a little graver perhaps, but not lackadaisical and pining.

To give every ounce in you to do what you set out to do—no lackadaisical dilettantism—your whole heart in it—and go to it!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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