lazy

[la·zy]

While lazy actually means being averse to work or avoiding it, it can also be used to describe something slow moving or unenergetic, like when you stroll down the garden path with a lazy gait, not in a hurry to get anywhere.

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Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.

Adjective S.
disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

Adjective S.
moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace"


superl.
Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.

superl.
Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.

superl.
Wicked; vicious.


Lazy

La"zy , a. [Compar. Lazier ; superl. Laziest.] [OE. lasie, laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. F. las tired, L. lassus, akin to E. late; or cf. LG. losig, lesig.] 1. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work. Bacon. 2. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight." Shak. 3. Wicked; vicious. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] B. Jonson. Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery. Syn. -- Idle; indolent; sluggish; slothful. See Idle.

Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.

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Usage Examples

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

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