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Significats de faineant en anglès

Disinclined to work or exertion.

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Examples for "lazy"
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I can hear the lazy sea a short distance over the embankment.
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His lazy list of political demands may have reflected an essential pyromania.
Ghost wars
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Route 6 went past in a long, lazy curve to the right.
Throttle
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I'm quite healthy but I can also be quite lazy about it.
The Irish Times
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A police department cruiser leads the way, lights flashing in lazy salute.
The Apocalypse Codex
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The clinical course is heterogeneous, manifested by a fulminant or indolent course.
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In conclusion the indolent nature of the disease justifies a conservative approach.
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It is often characterized by a clinically indolent course and delayed diagnosis.
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Purpose: Patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma typically respond well to first-line immunochemotherapy.
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PCBCL is generally an indolent form of lymphoma with a good prognosis.
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It was in no way cheap; it did not flatter slothful ears.
The Goose Man
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Indeed in sleep 5 The slothful body, that does love to steep
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Mr. Threader, by contrast, played the slothful tortoise to Drake's enterprising hare.
The system of the world
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Minstrels were a slothful lot, averse to the chill of early morning.
The Truce of God
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I heard it then, the rough, fatty breathing of a slothful soul.
Rasputin's daughter
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There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
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Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
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There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
Phases of Faith; Or, Passages from the History of My Creed
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That is the best of news for some of us work-shy or feeble gardeners.
The Irish Times
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For all but the most lavish and work-shy couples, a honeymoon has a defined end date.
The Irish Times
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He said I was a drug-addict, lazy, work-shy.
Reuters
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And no one could ever call him work-shy.
The World According to Bob
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What are you snivelling for, you little work-shy?
Sharper than a serpent's tooth
Ús de faineant en anglès
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They were the Mayors of that Palace; he only le roi faineant.
Lucretia — Volume 05
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An habitual drunkard was more welcome at "raisings" and "logrollings" than a known faineant.
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
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While a roi faineant may fulfil effectively all the essential duties of sovereignty, an autocrate faineant is an absurdity.
Russia
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I wonder if the faineant Sultan who luxuriates at Langat knows anything of the sensationalism of his "yacht."
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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So long as I am in the chair, I cannot be a faineant or refuse to do anything and everything incidental to the position.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
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The Count de Faineant embraced me with more ardor than ever I was embraced by mortal man.
The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
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The Count de Faineant embraced me with more ardour than ever I was embraced by mortal man.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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The Company contents itself with being Mayor of the Palace, while the Roi Faineant is suffered to play at being a sovereign.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
Faineant a través del temps