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Definition of "la-la" []

  • So-so; poor; languid.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "la-la" in a sentence
  • "Tony Curtis ruled from a facade throne in la-la land, then dazzled for decades in Sin City and ended up presiding over the very real and noble task of helping stallions pass to greener pastures at the Shiloh Horse Sanctuary (a nonprofit organization that he co-founded with wife, Jill Curtis)."
  • "Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the "real world.""
  • "Only his work and an anthology of knock-knock jokes had kept him from slipping into la-la land."
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