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Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery.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

... things which would be so full of bitter recollection and dread to her. But Orte clamored for me to show it my powers—Orte, which was more than half asleep by Tiber's side, like that nymph Canens whom I used to read of in my Latin school-books—Orte, which had no earthly thing to do this long and lazy day in the drought of ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... over frozen or stony grounds, hunting over a rough and ill-cleaned country, over-feeding, confinement, and lazy habits, are all conducive in some measure to ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

... may be filled with little but repetition. "Nature loves analogy and hates repetition." Botany reveals evolution not permanence. An apparent confusion if lived with long enough may become orderly. Emerson was not writing for lazy minds, though one of the keenest of his academic friends said that, he (Emerson) could not explain many of his own pages. But why should he!—he explained them when he discovered them—the moment ...

— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives

... Farquarson, "I'll have a wash up, and then come. But what a darned funny thing not to blow you up with the mines. I just said to my mate, they are a lot of lazy beasts, or there's something wrong with the wires. But the mate said, 'No; he's taken them unawares.' 'Unawares be d——d!' said I; 'he's not taken these gunboat chaps unawares, for I couldn't get them ...

— Looking Seaward Again • Walter Runciman

... of the Slash Lazy D wrung their hands. "By Godfrey! I'm plumb pleased. Couldn't get it outa my head that they'd got you lads. ...

— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine

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