"slackadaisical" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of slack + lackadaisical",
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          "ref": "1986, George Mazzei, Moving Up, page 177:",
          "text": "Usually it is when a co-worker is making a mess of things, you know it, and your own workload is increasing in a direct inverse ratio to his slackadaisical ways.",
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          "ref": "2009, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise:",
          "text": "But they're worlds apart from the bleary, slackadaisical euphoria of Happy Mondays.",
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          "ref": "2011, Michael Garrett Farrelly, Make Room for Teens!, page 7:",
          "text": "Ah, the simple and majestic bean bag; this stalwart of youth, this icon of a slackadaisical generation, like a sceptered isle of laziness awash in the mellow fruitfulness of simpler days.",
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        "Slipshod and lazy; lacking diligence and effort."
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