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Recent Examples of lazily
But everything changed when a Trinidadian player stepped lazily out to meet him.
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Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
The ball rolled lazily into shallow right field, and Kell’s Kayden Reed scored from third base.
—Jack Leo, AJC.com, 24 May 2026
There’s a ceiling fan turning lazily.
—AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
The beats lazily play into aughts pastiche, ignoring the 15 years of mutation that have morphed trap into plugg, rage, drill, and SahBabii.
—Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
Wild antelope prance freely while bison lazily graze in pastures.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
Drone footage shared by the venue shows the mission’s Orion spacecraft lazily circling the picture-perfect Moon.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
The rooms Each room here channels a new type of contemporary African design—there are no throwaway uses of Ankara cloth to lazily signal to the continent.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2026
Dense mattresses and coverlets of various colors, adorned with all kinds of decorations, lay, lazily stacked, on a bed in a small room.
—Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
The ball rolled lazily into shallow right field, and Kell’s Kayden Reed scored from third base.
—Jack Leo, AJC.com, 24 May 2026
There’s a ceiling fan turning lazily.
—AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
The beats lazily play into aughts pastiche, ignoring the 15 years of mutation that have morphed trap into plugg, rage, drill, and SahBabii.
—Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
Wild antelope prance freely while bison lazily graze in pastures.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
Drone footage shared by the venue shows the mission’s Orion spacecraft lazily circling the picture-perfect Moon.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
The rooms Each room here channels a new type of contemporary African design—there are no throwaway uses of Ankara cloth to lazily signal to the continent.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2026
Dense mattresses and coverlets of various colors, adorned with all kinds of decorations, lay, lazily stacked, on a bed in a small room.
—Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lazily
Adverb
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Collaboration is not a word Seehorn deploys casually.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
2 June 2026
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Sorry to just casually mention that Rue died 45 minutes into the episode.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
1 June 2026
Adverb
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There's something romantic about the sight of flowers languidly cascading over the sides of pots.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Apr. 2026
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Melbourne, Australia — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Every Sunday, Jesse Minter strode wearily onto a red-eye flight at Los Angeles International Airport for a trip back to Baltimore, where the work week awaited.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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If the power comes flickering on for a few precious hours in the middle of the night, that’s when Cubans now rise to wearily cook and iron clothes.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The Mets offense once again started listlessly, looking late for a game that started three hours earlier than scheduled because of incoming inclement weather.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
5 May 2026
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My daughter enters the kitchen and stands there listlessly.—
Jean Garnett,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The Knicks came out of halftime sluggishly, falling behind by 13 points in the third quarter.—
Alejandro Avila,
FOXNews.com,
4 June 2026
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Voters, meanwhile, continued to respond somewhat sluggishly to the race, with early ballot returns slow particularly among Democrats, The Sacramento Bee reported Monday.—
Andrew Graham
June 1,
Sacbee.com,
1 June 2026
Adverb
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At least four officers stood by during the assaults, while two others halfheartedly attempted to break them up.—
Jason Henry,
Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The rise of disco in the mid-1970s prompted too many soul-music greats to halfheartedly jump on the bandwagon.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Lazily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lazily. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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