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Word of the Day for Thursday, August 14, 2008lackadaisical \lack-uh-DAY-zih-kuhl\, adjective: Lacking spirit or liveliness; showing lack of interest; languid; listless. Drowsy from the heat and from fatigue, he dozed to the steady lackadaisical clips of the mule's shoes. There was an oddly lackadaisical inflection to his speech. A sense of merely going though the motions. The very title, Hours of Idleness, which the young lord affixed to his maiden volume, sufficiently indicated the lackadaisical spirit in which he came before the public. The simple fact is, whether we admit it or not, there's never been an "intelligence" or "achievement" test on which the smart and industrious have not done better than the dumb and the lackadaisical. Lackadaisical comes from the expression lackadaisy, a variation of lackaday, itself a shortening of "alack the (or a) day!" | |||||||||
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