He lost interest in the game; lackadaisically he placed the buttons on their squares as the numbers were shouted, finally to brush them all aside and desert the game.
"The Cross-Cut"
Courtney Ryley Cooper
Once more Fairchild took up his work, dully, almost lackadaisically, pounding away at the long, six-foot drill with strokes that had behind them only muscles, not the intense driving power of hope.
"The Cross-Cut"
Courtney Ryley Cooper
He sighed often, and sometimes mightily; and ogled unhappily, and smiled lackadaisically.
"The House by the Church-Yard"
J. Sheridan Le Fanu