lazy
/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/ adjective A1- Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion. · Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
- Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely. · I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
- Showing a lack of effort or care. · lazy writing
- Sluggish; slow-moving. · We strolled along beside a lazy stream.
- Droopy. · a lazy-eared rabbit
- Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
- Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required. · a lazy algorithm
Comparative lazier · Superlative laziest
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather—that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times.”
But the girl lived with an old woman who did not want her to marry anyone, for she was so lazy she wished the girl to remain with her and do the cooking and the housework.
Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away.” While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw.
In this manner they had not proceeded far when they met a company of women and children: “Why, you lazy old fellow,” cried several tongues at once, “how can you ride upon the beast, while that poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you?
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