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Has anything been done about their glaring defensive problems including their inability to hit the cutoff man, throwing to the wrong base, dropped balls, getting poor jumps on batted balls and just general lackadaisicalness?

From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 5, 2011

Philip, who on former occasions affected in regard of the ardent questions of his younger brother a sort of protective and bantering lackadaisicalness, was hurt that he did not put them this time.

From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain

But in my opinion there is not in the sorrowful life of Russia a more mournful phenomenon than this lackadaisicalness and vitiation of thought.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert