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adjective

Lazy adj. (compar. lazier; superl. laziest)

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

Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight."

Wicked; vicious. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery.

Synonyms: Idle; indolent; sluggish; slothful. See Idle.

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"Lazy" Quotes from Famous Books

... begin to gather together the pieces of drift-wood that the peaceful waves throw up on to the shore. They are evidently planning to make a raft; but as one of them casts his lazy eyes in the direction in which ours were at first thrown, he exclaims with evident joy, in his native French "Voila les vaisseaux!" or words to that effect, for he has descried two ships entering the bay from the Gulf. The ships slowly keep their way towards the inland coast, and from one ...

— The Junior Classics • Various

... Ben. If you could take me away from this dead old town, with its lazy white people and its trifling niggers, to a place where there's music and art, and life and society—where there's something going on all the time, I'd like to marry you. But if I did so now, you'd take me out to your rickety old house, with your daffy ...

— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt

... closed the doors of the health-office that we dropped anchor in the middle of the little harbor,—the wondering centre of attraction to a wondering town, whose folk came to assist at the sunsetting and our arrival. Lazy soldiers, lying at full length on the old bronze cannon of the batteries, looked out at us, only raising their heads from their crossed arms; grave Turks, smoking their nargiles in front of the cafes that open on the Marina, turned ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various

... of the commissioners had convinced them that Charles was not only lazy and ignorant, but too poor to use force; and they also believed him to be so embroiled with Parliament as to make his overthrow probable. Filled with such feelings, their reception of Randolph was almost brutal. John Leverett was governor, who seems to have taken pains to mark ...

— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams

... business upon the lines which I have attempted to define. Moreover, this is essential to the future success of the work done in the schools, in order that the trained mind of youth may not afterwards find itself baulked by the ignorant apathy or lazy conservatism of its elders. ...

— The Rural Life Problem of the United States - Notes of an Irish Observer • Horace Curzon Plunkett

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