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Originally Posted by cloud9
I'm kind of confused about the use of のらりくらり. The dictionary defines it as lazy, slippery as an eel, etc. Is it, depending on context, it can mean lazy OR slippery as an eel (evasive, etc)?
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I have never seen the word used to mean "slippery", never. And I am a seasoned native speaker, too. We have another word for that: ぬるぬる.
のらりくらり（と） means "in a lazy manner", "idly", "elusively", etc.