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.”
(If you don’t know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) “Up, lazy thing!” said the Queen, “and take this young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history.
Mowgli would laugh and answer: “I have the Pack and I have thee; and Baloo, though he is so lazy, might strike a blow or two for my sake.
She had come dancing up the lane, like a wind-blown sprite, through the mellow sunshine and lazy shadows of the August evening.
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