lazily

CEFRB1

/lˈæzəli/

adverb

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

Examples

The first-time precarious fisherman lazily fished dangerous poisonous fish, but soon stopped to shell peas.
The red fish is swimming lazily in the lake.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meaning

In context

She lazily scrubbed the pot, but without some real elbow grease it wasn't going to get clean.
Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.
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.

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC,...
Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.
1946 January and February, 'Talisman', “Bückeburg to Aberayron”, in Railway Magazine, page 41

Looking a word up is the easy part. LexUp remembers which words you have met and brings them back at the point you were about to forget them.

From lazy + -ly.