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Russian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (phonetic respelling: лехкомы́слие)
Noun
легкомы́слие • (lexkomýslije) n inan (genitive легкомы́слия, nominative plural легкомы́слия, genitive plural легкомы́слий)
- frivolity, light-mindedness, carelessness
1886, Антон Чехов [Anton Chekhov], На пути; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., On the Road, 1920:— Та́к-то, суда́рыня, — шепта́л он, заку́ривая то́лстую папиро́су и пуска́я дым в пе́чку. — Приро́да вложи́ла в ру́сского челове́ка необыкнове́нную спосо́бность ве́ровать, испыту́ющий ум и дар мысли́тельства, но всё э́то разбива́ется в прах о беспе́чность, лень и мечта́тельное легкомы́слие… Да-с…- — Ták-to, sudárynja, — šeptál on, zakúrivaja tólstuju papirósu i puskája dym v péčku. — Priróda vložíla v rússkovo čelovéka neobyknovénnuju sposóbnostʹ vérovatʹ, ispytújuščij um i dar myslítelʹstva, no vsjo éto razbivájetsja v prax o bespéčnostʹ, lenʹ i mečtátelʹnoje lexkomýslije… Da-s…
- "So, Madam," he whispered, lighting a fat cigarette and puffing the smoke into the stove. "Nature has put into the Russian an extraordinary faculty for belief, a searching intelligence, and the gift of speculation, but all that is reduced to ashes by irresponsibility, laziness, and dreamy frivolity. . . . Yes. . . ."
Declension