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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Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery.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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lazy" Quotes from Famous Books

... over the gateway, 'Stabling for Sixty Horses;' as indeed there might be stabling for sixty score, were there any horses to be stabled there, or anybody resting there, or anything stirring about the place but a dangling bush, indicative of the wine inside: which flutters idly in the wind, in lazy keeping with everything else, and certainly is never in a green old age, though always so old as to be dropping to pieces. And all day long, strange little narrow waggons, in strings of six or eight, bringing cheese from Switzerland, and frequently in charge, the whole line, of one man, ...

— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens

... in spirits and good humour. It may seem strange that a boy who was so lazy the day before, as to wish that hares ran about ready roasted, should work so hard this day at so severe a job as making a raft. But it was natural enough. There is nothing interesting to a dull and discontented ...

— The Settlers at Home • Harriet Martineau

... An idle, lazy child was to be taught to run. He had no liking for this or any other exercise, though he was intended for the army. Somehow or other he had got it into his head that a man of his rank need know nothing and do nothing—that ...

— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

... the boatman, with a lazy, significant glance at the consul, "it wull be a lesson to me not to trust to a lassie's GANGIN' jo, ...

— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... not off, you lazy little wretches! You can manage all right if you like; I know perfectly well you can! It's just a piece of obstinacy. Pig policy doesn't pay with me, I assure you! I've been put in authority for ...

— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

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