lazy

lazy: lazy, indolent, slothful, faineant are comparable primarily as applied to persons, their powers, movements, and actions, but also in some degree to things. All mean not easily aroused to action or activity. Lazy especially when applied to persons suggests a disinclination or aversion to effort or work and usually connotes idleness or dawdling, even when one is supposedly at work; the term is commonly derogatory

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rubbing their sleepy eyes with lazy wrists— Keats
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Una, now twenty-three, grandly beautiful, alternately lazy and amazingly energetic— Rose Macaulay
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we were too lazy .... We passed our indolent days leaving everything to somebody else— H. G. Wells
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Indolent implies an habitual love of ease and a settled dislike of movement or activity

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the stretching, indolent ease that the flesh and the spirit of this creature invariably seemed to move with— Wister
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he was so good- natured, and so indolent, that I lost more than I got by him; for he made me as idle as himself— Cowper
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Slothful suggests the temper or indolence of one who is inactive when he knows he should be active or who moves or acts with excessive slowness when speed is essential

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be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises— Heb 6:12
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not despondency, not slothful anguish, is what you now require, —but effort— Hawthorne
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he would . . . jog a slothful conscience and marshal its forces— Parrington
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Faineant implies both a slothful temper and a disposition to remain idly indifferent in spite of pressure or urgency

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he does not abandon hope in the masses ... or see the people animated only by a faineant desire to be ruled— New Republic
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carpet-knight ... is used as a term of reproach for a soldier who stays at home, and avoids active service and its hardships, with a particular reference to the carpet of a lady's chamber, in which such a faineant soldier lingers— Encyc. Brit.
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Analogous words: inert, idle, inactive, supine, passive: torpid, comatose, sluggish, iethargic: ianguid, languorous, lackadaisical, listless: slack, remiss, lax, *negligent, neglectful

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Synonyms:

Slothful, sluggish, sluggard, indolent, idle, inert, inactive, supine, torpid, slack, dronish, lumpish / Sluggish, slow, creeping

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Lazy Y U — Lugar designado por el censo de los Estados Unidos … Wikipedia Español
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lazy — (adj.) 1540s, laysy, of unknown origin. Replaced native slack, slothful, and idle as the main word expressing the notion of averse to work. In 19c. thought to be from LAY (Cf. lay) (v.) as tipsy from tip. Skeat is responsible for the prevailing… … Etymology dictionary
lazy — [lā′zē] adj. lazier, laziest [Early ModE, prob. < MLowG or MDu, as in MLowG lasich, slack, loose < IE les , slack, tired, akin to base * lēi : see LATE] 1. not eager or willing to work or exert oneself; indolent; slothful 2. slow and heavy; … English World dictionary
lazy — UK US /ˈleɪzi/ adjective ► not willing to work hard or make an effort: »His line manager felt that he was brilliant but lazy … Financial and business terms

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