lazily

English

Etymology

lazy +‎ -ly

Adverb

lazily (comparative more lazily, superlative most lazily)

1. In a lazy manner.

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

2. In a slow manner.
   • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 203:

     Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts.

Translations

in a lazy manner

• Catalan: mandrosament (ca), peresosament (ca)
• Dutch: loom (nl)
• Finnish: laiskasti (fi)
• French: paresseusement (fr)
• Galician: preguizosamente
• Georgian: ზარმაცად (zarmacad)
• Italian: indolentemente (it), infingardamente (it), neghittosamente (it), oziosamente (it), pigramente (it), svogliatamente (it)
• Latin: segniter
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• Latvian: slinki
• Norman: ouaîsivement, pièrcheusement
• Portuguese: preguiçosamente
• Russian: лени́во (ru) (lenívo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ле̑но, лије̑но

  Roman: lȇno (sh), lijȇno (sh)

• Spanish: perezosamente