slothfully

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Adverb
  • There’s a ceiling fan turning lazily.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
  • The beats lazily play into aughts pastiche, ignoring the 15 years of mutation that have morphed trap into plugg, rage, drill, and SahBabii.
    Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Activist spirits might dismiss this emphasis on the purely sonic as a strategy of avoidance, although the likes of Feizabadi and Kourliandski can’t be accused of sitting idly by.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • The spouses correct each other’s grammar, natter about a razor, idly wonder if Martin might have Alzheimer’s.
    Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • For minimal pay, the démineurs face death daily, lethargically; their work is so methodical, and its payoff so distant, that no one really celebrates them.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • At least four officers stood by during the assaults, while two others halfheartedly attempted to break them up.
    Jason Henry, Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The rise of disco in the mid-1970s prompted too many soul-music greats to halfheartedly jump on the bandwagon.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
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“Slothfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slothfully. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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