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lazily

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Lazily (adv) means Done in a way that shows a person is being lazy.

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Done in a way that shows a person is being lazy.

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

Done unhurriedly, without any speed.

"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." — , Bückeburg to Aberayron (1946)

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