Sentence examples for lackadaisically from inspiring English sources

"I believe we need to give people the good grace to pop into a local corner shop for ten minutes to buy a newspaper or a loaf of bread without risking a £70 fine," he said recently.This impractical plan echoes a widespread but mistaken belief that parking rules can work even if they are lackadaisically applied.

He served as a fireman in the Soviet army and wanted to study law, but wound up lackadaisically selling computers in Moscow.

In the small settlement of Armadillo all is calm, the people soundlessly going about their business while down the main stretch a tumbleweed lackadaisically idles by.

Its commonsense goal — which the previous Administration pursued somewhere between lackadaisically and not at all — was to persuade participating governments to "lock down" their bomb-usable nuclear material, much of which is stored in military, civilian, and university installations that are dangerously insecure.

George, who works lackadaisically at a nonprofit foundation of his mother's choosing, expends most of his energy arranging for a performance of "The Burning Papers," a crazed-sounding opera he's written about the decline of civilization.

The very drugs that loosened his nerves and made the big bad outside world navigable also made him a sloppy driver, weaving lackadaisically around the highway, and wherever we were going — California, Vancouver — would seem very far away.

"There are so many things," Rizwan Raja, a Pakistani driver, said, rattling off a list of his pet peeves: putting one's feet up on the partition, smoking, crossing the street lackadaisically.

"The washarette, y'erd me?" he says, lackadaisically.

"Up and down," Kent says lackadaisically.

The latest, with the Knicks seeming to play lackadaisically, signaled their first significant slump of the season.

Meanwhile tallies of the smaller number of white smallpox victims were kept only lackadaisically and eventually crossed out all together — evidence, he argues, that officials were eager to see the outbreak as a "black epidemic" not worth bothering about.