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LAZILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an idle manner

Example:

this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people

Synonyms:

idly; lazily

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

lazy (disinclined to work or exertion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a slow and lazy manner

Example:

I watched the blue smoke drift lazily away on the still air

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

lazy (moving slowly and gently)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He only winked lazily, when she kissed his ball of a head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend’s noble correspondent could be.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The canvas flapped lazily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The funeral held at noon was all completed, and the last stragglers of the mourners had taken themselves lazily away, when, looking carefully from behind a clump of alder-trees, we saw the sexton lock the gate after him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears cock up, intent and listening, and he would spring to his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, through the forest aisles and across the open spaces where the niggerheads bunched.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I never hear the name, or read the name, of Yarmouth, but I am reminded of a certain Sunday morning on the beach, the bells ringing for church, little Em'ly leaning on my shoulder, Ham lazily dropping stones into the water, and the sun, away at sea, just breaking through the heavy mist, and showing us the ships, like their own shadows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Ghost was going very slowly, and when her stern lifted on a wave and she slipped forward she pulled the wretch to the surface and gave him a moment in which to breathe; but between each lift the stern fell, and while the bow lazily climbed the next wave the line slacked and he sank beneath.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)