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Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery.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

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lazy" Quotes from Famous Books

... you lazy rascal, get up. The sun is half an hour high, and breakfast is ready. Get up and gaze upon the ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... has been doing that?' sung out the sergeant. 'Just as if the road isn't bad enough without these infernal lazy scoundrels of bullock-drivers cutting down trees to make us go round. It's a beastly track here ...

— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... Frischlin, a Tom Brown, and a Joseph Miller. Leave labored analysis to the philosophers, contenting ourselves with remarking that a jest is a laugh candied or frozen in words, and thawed and relished in the reading or utterance. And laughter? When a man is too lazy to think out an idea, and yet too active to dreamily feel it, he laughs. When he catches its leading points, and yet realizes that behind them remains the incomprehensible or incongruous, he settles it for the nonce with ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... that," said the captain, eagerly. "If anything, he is too open-handed. What I meant was that he isn't lazy." ...

— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... "Hang the lazy lubber!" shouted the mate from below—"snoring in broad daylight, eh? Wake him up with the rope's end, Frenchy! Wallop him ...

— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid

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