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This time around, it was lackadaisacal defense and 18 turnovers that doomed a team desperately trying to keep pace with the Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio, New Orleans and Phoenix at the top of the West.
USATODAY.com 2007
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Weir, who blamed his lackadaisacal showing on a severe bout of flu which he claimed took eight pounds off of his sequined frame in a single day, finished fifth at Nationals, missing the cut to compete in the global round.
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2009
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I'm ok with lackadaisacal government as long as the politicians who run on it forego their salaries, benefits, office expenses, etc.
John McCain on "Meet the Press." Ann Althouse 2008
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President Bush's lackadaisacal response to the Hurricane Katrina crisis is pretty much a truism by now.
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Our lackadaisacal pursuit of bin Laden is mirrored by a lack of public outcry for his head.
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Sloan seemed more offended by his team's lackadaisacal play.
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His daddy owns our newspaper, and he knows he's never going to get fired, so he takes a lackadaisacal approach to everything.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001
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The vigorous old detective inspired to real speed, for the first time in his lackadaisacal life, left the newspaper men at the bridge nearly three-quarters of an hour before Bonner passed the same spot, driving furiously up the hill toward Judge Brewster's.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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I feel myself in a lackadaisacal no-how-ish kind of a humour.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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It will be tempting for the president's party to write off the loss in Massachusetts as a lesson in bad campaigning: Coakley's lackadaisacal, take-it-for-granted approach to the race until, too late, recognzing the trouble she was in and calling on the president to help bail her out.
The Swamp 2010
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