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lackadaisical, a.|lækəˈdeɪzɪkəl|
Also 8 -daysical, 9 -daisycal.
[f. lackadaisy + -ic + -al1.]
Resembling one who is given to crying ‘Lackaday!’; full of vapid feeling or sentiment; affectedly languishing. Said of persons, their behaviour, manners, and utterances.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) I. 61 (Pulse), Sitting in my black coat, and in my lack-adaysical manner, counting the throbs of it. 1807A. M. Porter Hungar. Bro. vi. (1832) 77 What do you cast up your lack-a-daisical eyes at, Forshiem? 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets vi. (1870) 146 No man has written so many lack-a-daisical..verses as he. 1834Beckford Italy I. 357 Lackadaisical loitering on the banks of the Arve. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour lxviii. 384 The..lackadaisical misses whom he could love or not, according to circumstances. 1870L'Estrange Miss Mitford I. v. 149 They [Miss Seward's Letters] are affected, sentimental, and lackadaisical to the highest degree.
Hence ˌlackadaisiˈcality, lackaˈdaisicalness, the quality of being lackadaisical; ˌlackaˈdaisically adv., in a lackadaisical manner.
1823New Monthly Mag. VII. 169 They conceive the eternal..lackadaisicalities touching the matter of Walter Scott's ‘more last dying words’. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 59 Her father's odd ways..and her mother's odd speeches, and her sister's lack-a-daisicalness. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. iv, ‘I think I am’, reiterated the dead man, very lackadaisically. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xii. 121 He stands..with one leg drawn up, and his ten fingers interlaced lackadaisically. 1887Pall Mall G. 17 Sept. 13/2 If Ministers refuse replies..Don't charge them with..lackadaisicality. |