Laziness
['leɪzɪnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) relaxed and easy activity; 'the laziness of the day helped her to relax'.
Typist: Terrence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being lazy.
Editor: Philip
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Editor: Spence
Examples
- By a mixacle of laziness and stupidity of the fascists which they will remedy in time. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- My Liege, said the Friar, I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I'm inclined to think that laziness is what your old Dr. Botherem, up in Vermont, used to call the 'essence of moral evil. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That remains of all the laziness, sloth and failure. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If it weren't for laziness, I should have been a perfect angel, myself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Too much trouble,--laziness, cousin, laziness,--which ruins more souls than you can shake a stick at. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A shallow and specious other-worldliness has been driven out: an other-worldliness which is really nothing but laziness about this one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was beat and cowed into laziness and submission. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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