adv. [f. LAZY a. + -LY2.] In a lazy manner; without energy or spirit, sluggishly.

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1587.  Golding, De Mornay, xxxiii. 537. He that feighteth lasilie shalbe damned in hell.

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1688.  Bunyan, Heavenly Footman (1886), 147. You run too lazily, the door is shut.

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1744.  Armstrong, Preserv. Health, II. 527. Thro’ tedious channels the congealing flood Crawls lazily, and hardly wanders on.

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1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., II. i. In a certain lazily arrogant air.

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1887.  Spectator, 26 March, 415/2. The clouds that float lazily over the enchanted valley.

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