LAZILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lazily mean? 

• LAZILY (adverb)
  The adverb LAZILY has 2 senses:

1. in a slow and lazy manner

2. in an idle manner

  Familiarity information: LAZILY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAZILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a slow and lazy manner

Context example:

I watched the blue smoke drift lazily away on the still air

Pertainym:

lazy (moving slowly and gently)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an idle manner

Synonyms:

idly; lazily

Context example:

this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people

Pertainym:

lazy (disinclined to work or exertion)

 Context examples 

Some way out from the town a line of pessoners, creyers, and other small craft were rolling lazily on the gentle swell.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jip nestled closer to his mistress, and lazily licked her hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His lids lifted lazily as he asked the question, and it seemed that the deeps were opening to me and that I was gazing into his soul. But it was an illusion.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To have a full stomach, to doze lazily in the sunshine—such things were remuneration in full for his ardours and toils, while his ardours and tolls were in themselves self-remunerative.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He turned over the pages lazily, leaning back in his chair and blowing great clouds from his cigar.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I smiled to myself, and in my psychological way, began lazily to inquire into the elements of this illusion, occasionally, even as I did so, dropping back into a comfortable morning doze.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And here, lying by the river bank through the long spring days, watching the running water, listening lazily to the songs of birds and the hum of nature, Buck slowly won back his strength.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When they were all unloaded and packed in a great heap in one corner of the yard, the Slovaks were given some money by the Szgany, and spitting on it for luck, lazily went each to his horse's head.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)