Lazy
['leɪzɪ] or ['lezi]
Definition
(adj.) moving slowly and gently; 'up a lazy river'; 'lazy white clouds'; 'at a lazy pace' .
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Definition
(superl.) Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
(superl.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
(superl.) Wicked; vicious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Slothful, sluggish, indolent, idle, inert, inactive, supine, torpid, slack, dronish, lumpish.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LABORIOUS]
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Definition
adj. disinclined to exertion: averse to labour: sluggish: tedious.—v.i. Laze to be lazy.—adv. Lā′zily.—ns. Lā′ziness state or quality of being lazy; Lā′zy-bed a bed for growing potatoes the seed being laid on the surface and covered with earth dug out of trenches along both sides; Lā′zybones (coll.) a lazy person an idler; Lā′zy-jack a jack constructed of compound levers pivoted together; Lā′zy-pin′ion (see Idle-wheel).—n.pl. Lā′zy-tongs tongs consisting of a series of diagonal levers pivoted together at the middle and ends capable of being extended by a movement of the scissors-like handles so as to pick up objects at a distance.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of feeling lazy, or acting so, denotes you will make a mistake in the formation of enterprises, and will suffer keen disappointment. For a young woman to think her lover is lazy, foretells she will have bad luck in securing admiration. Her actions will discourage men who mean marriage.
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Examples
- Sir Percival looked seriously embarrassed and distressed, Mr. Fairlie stretched out his lazy legs on his velvet footstool, and said, Dear Marian! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- From one year of war thou has become lazy, a drunkard and a coward. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- My Dear Mentor, Please make my adieux to your aunt, and exult within yourself, for 'Lazy Laurence' has gone to his grandpa, like the best of boys. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Dismiss the whole lazy pack of indoor servants to-morrow, except Porcher. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is possible that I am lazy and that I drink too much. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Observation and recognition, belief and assent, then become names for lazy acquiescence in what is externally presented. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It will do me good, for since you came I have been altogether lazy and luxurious. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- To Archer's strained nerves the vision was as soothing as the sight of the blue sky and the lazy river. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Because, with every chance for being good, useful, and happy, you are faulty, lazy, and miserable. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But though it be true to a proverb that lazy folks take the most pains, does it follow that they deserve the most money? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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