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ADJECTIVE lazy COMPARATIVE lazier SUPERLATIVE laziest
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lazy English

Meaning lazy meaning

What does lazy mean?
Definitions in simple English

lazy

If someone is lazy, they do not want to work or do anything difficult. He went to a restaurant because he was too lazy to cook. I had a lazy dog who just slept on the sofa all day. A lazy day or time is a time for relaxing. We finished school and looked forward to the lazy days of summer.

lazy

moving slowly and gently up a lazy river lazy white clouds at a lazy pace (= faineant, indolent, slothful, work-shy) 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

Synonyms lazy synonyms

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Topics lazy topics

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Simple sentences

He is lazy.
Tom is lazy.
The quick brown fox may as well go fuck the lazy dog.
During the morning I feel very lazy, I don't want to do anything.
I'm not lazy.
Tom used to be lazy.
I used to be lazy.
This morning, I was very lazy and didn't go out.
Is Tom lazy?
You're too lazy.
I am too lazy to go there.
I'm too lazy to do my homework.
Stop being lazy and find something to do.
Beth was asked by her lazy boyfriend to do his history homework.
Fred is a lazy fellow.
Tom is not a lazy boy. As a matter of fact, he works hard.
Tom is by no means unintelligent. He is just lazy.
But I was always too lazy.
It was clear that the lazy student would never live up to his family's expectations.
How lazy you are!
In other words, he is lazy.
So far as I know, he is not lazy.
I am by no means absent from this class because I am lazy.
I am ashamed of having been lazy.
On one hand he is kind, but on the other hand he is lazy.
He was scolded by his teacher for being lazy.
They would think the person is modest or lazy.
John had been lazy before he met you.
The trouble with him is that he is lazy.
She scolded her son for being lazy.
The lazy man frequently neglects his duties.

Movie subtitles

Hey, where you at, you lazy-eyed queen?
You're a flaming queen with a big-old lazy eye.
Some days I'm lazy and don't do all five salats.
We'll be happy and lazy.
The government's lazy.
Answer it yourself, lazy. - Don't be rude.
You're too lazy to worry him.
Come on, Sonny, don't be lazy.
Just gave you lazy cowhands a little exercise, that's all.
Oh, the lazy days. the warm, still, country twilight. the high, soft Negro laughter from the quarters. the golden warmth and security of those days.
Lazy streams, angry little midges of water up in the mountains.
Too lazy to go after the biggest story in years.
But out here, one gets so lazy.
Get up, lazy.
I don't know. We'll be happy and lazy.
Didn't I tell you they were a lazy bunch?
Lazy coward!
She'll die in the street if she counts on you, lazy bum!
A lazy bum.
Now, lazy, get up.
Do you know what women who look for work are? Lazy!
Too lazy to answer the door?
Oh, the lazy days the warm, still, country twilight the high, soft Negro laughter from the quarters the golden warmth and security of those days.
Some people is too lazy to vote, that's all.
But out here, one gets so lazy. The boys take such good care of us.
So lazy acres was a snare and a delusion, huh?
I can stand an idiot or lazy person but not a villain.
The biggest story in two years, and you're too lazy to go out.
Lazy dunces.
Don't think I am lazy because I stay in bed.
Lazy fool!
You're just lazy.
You scream lazy. And they are experts in such matters.
You lazy dogs!
Then the lazy rock.
When there's something across the room and you're too lazy to get up and get it well, you just rock over and get it.
Can't you get those lazy legs off that couch, maybe?

News and current affairs

He was not just under-briefed, but also lazy: he insisted on remaining under-briefed.
But how lazy that assumption seems now, given all that has since happened.
Low salaries are often part of an implicit bargain: in exchange for the bad pay, university administrators close their eyes to lazy teaching and research.
They seemed callously to suggest that the problem of unemployment was with workers too lazy to pound the pavement to find work.
In the US, large companies were fat and lazy until a new generation of bosses like Jack Welch at General Electric took over and played rough.
The Kohl government did nothing to reform and the Schroeder government is equally lazy.
Many Western observers and journalists report Milosevic's trial in a lazy way.
This historical leap is possible only for people whose political irresponsibility is matched by their proclivity for lazy analogy.
If a fair one-time payment is offered, it is likely to be taken up by a majority of civil servants, and public opinion will frown upon the greedy or lazy ones who turn it down.
Are Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese, and other Europeans really supposed to embrace an austerity program imposed on them because prevailing wisdom in Germany and other northern countries considers them profligate and lazy?
For increasingly rich Europeans, the summer of 1914 seemed a peaceful, lazy time.
LONDON - If Socrates's gadfly was in Silicon Valley, it would have a lot of lazy horses to sting.
People are not as stupid or lazy as politicians and bureaucrats think.
The historian Paul Nolte criticizes Conservatives for being strategically lazy.
If a lazy and fearful Europe did not want Turkey, so much the worse for Europe; history was offering more glorious alternatives to the Turks.
We have become complacent and lazy.
It's not that I'm mean or lazy. It's that I have 400 other messages begging for attention.
As I read this, I know I sound like a lazy, distracted person who can't be bothered to be helpful. But your goal is not to reform me or others like me.
The problem is not that the Washington Post and papers like it hire people who are unintelligent or lazy.
We think ourselves more open, sentimental, cordial, and family oriented, but also more disorganized and blase, at times irresponsible and lazy.
Seen from this perspective, Europe and Japan should trounce the US because of their far superior basic education systems, and Japanese discipline make Europeans look lazy.

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