Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly; without close attention; slowly; slackly; not vigorously; languidly; without ardor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
remiss manner.
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Examples
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Our lives are too short to be fruitlessly employed, or remissly passed.
On vacation 2009
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Our lives are too short to be fruitlessly employed, or remissly passed.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Another main fault is, that I have not revised the copy, and amended the style, which now flows remissly, as it was first conceived; but my leisure would not permit; Feci nec quod potui, nec quod volui, I confess it is neither as I would, nor as it should be.
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Lemnius subscribes to that of Cardan, and assigns this reason, Quod persolvant debitum languide, et obscitanter, unde foetus a parentum generositate desciscit: they pay their debt (as Paul calls it) to their wives remissly, by which means their children are weaklings, and many times idiots and fools.
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Sadly Mrs Chubb remissly had the remains of the shed removed by bulldozer before proper forensic examination, the person performing the autopsy was no Amanda Burton, and the "other will" favouring the deceased Judge's distraught girlfriend Kerry Sparrow has never been found.
Archive 2007-10-14 2007
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For those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion are still in war; and their condition, not peace, but only
Leviathan 2007
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Sadly Mrs Chubb remissly had the remains of the shed removed by bulldozer before proper forensic examination, the person performing the autopsy was no Amanda Burton, and the "other will" favouring the deceased Judge's distraught girlfriend Kerry Sparrow has never been found.
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Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood.
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In some they are more accurately fitted, in others more remissly or carelessly contrived, and always with a view to their being closed under a greater or a slighter force of the ventricle.
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The accounts they brought were not unfounded; but neither the senate were so much affected by the circumstance; and Caius Sempronius, to whom the province fell by lot, relying on fortune, as if a most constant object, because he was the leader of a victorious state against one frequently vanquished, executed all his measures carelessly and remissly; so that there was more of the Roman discipline in the Volscian than in the Roman army.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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