Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being lazy; aversion or indisposition to action or exertion; indolence; sluggishness; habitual sloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being lazy.
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- noun The quality of being
lazy
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- noun inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
- noun relaxed and easy activity
- noun apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Etymologies
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Examples
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To say that I am irritated by the fact I have to pay for their laziness is an understatement, but even more aggravating is the fact they pay their top execs so damn much.
If You Want To Be Safe, Don’t Mention My Birthday… « The Graveyard 2010
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Bringing it up at dinner only made me get teased mercilessly "Is that what you call laziness these days?" but dammnit I cant pretend when I feel like hell.
You can have it all (if you like) Minzo 2005
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Bringing it up at dinner only made me get teased mercilessly "Is that what you call laziness these days?" but dammnit I cant pretend when I feel like hell.
Archive 2005-06-01 Minzo 2005
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If I attempted a race with the boys, I was obliged to give up from very weariness; and laughing at what they termed my laziness, they pursued their amusements without me.
A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church
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Few people are really lazy, he thought: what we call laziness is merely maladjustment.
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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The lad can no more help what you call laziness, than you could help being born with gray eyes.
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If we anchor something with an unpleasant output, we won't do the task, and we will experiment what we call laziness, or procastination.
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I honestly try not to eat out every day because it ends up so expensive, but laziness is obviously a factor.
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Okay, I need to stop revising and go put on my climbing pants, but the laziness is heavy in this one today.
she got a six foot pitchfork. i see the wrecking ball. matociquala 2009
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Though laziness is easily enough understood, I remain mystified as to why anyone who purports to follow Jesus would choose to condemn an entire population over choosing to obey Jesus 'self-proclaimed greatest commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself.
John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense John Shore 2010
myth commented on the word laziness
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard
March 8, 2009