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Meanings of lazy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "indolent"
Examples for "indolent"
1
The clinical course is heterogeneous, manifested by a fulminant or indolent course.
2
In conclusion the indolent nature of the disease justifies a conservative approach.
3
It is often characterized by a clinically indolent course and delayed diagnosis.
4
Purpose: Patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma typically respond well to first-line immunochemotherapy.
5
PCBCL is generally an indolent form of lymphoma with a good prognosis.
1
It was in no way cheap; it did not flatter slothful ears.
2
Indeed in sleep 5 The slothful body, that does love to steep
3
Mr. Threader, by contrast, played the slothful tortoise to Drake's enterprising hare.
4
Minstrels were a slothful lot, averse to the chill of early morning.
5
I heard it then, the rough, fatty breathing of a slothful soul.
1
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
2
Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
3
Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4
There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
5
We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
1
They were the Mayors of that Palace; he only le roi faineant.
2
An habitual drunkard was more welcome at "raisings" and "logrollings" than a known faineant.
3
While a roi faineant may fulfil effectively all the essential duties of sovereignty, an autocrate faineant is an absurdity.
4
I wonder if the faineant Sultan who luxuriates at Langat knows anything of the sensationalism of his "yacht."
5
So long as I am in the chair, I cannot be a faineant or refuse to do anything and everything incidental to the position.
1
That is the best of news for some of us work-shy or feeble gardeners.
2
For all but the most lavish and work-shy couples, a honeymoon has a defined end date.
3
He said I was a drug-addict, lazy, work-shy.
4
And no one could ever call him work-shy.
5
What are you snivelling for, you little work-shy?
Usage of lazy in English
1
I can hear the lazy sea a short distance over the embankment.
2
His lazy list of political demands may have reflected an essential pyromania.
3
Route 6 went past in a long, lazy curve to the right.
4
I'm quite healthy but I can also be quite lazy about it.
5
A police department cruiser leads the way, lights flashing in lazy salute.
6
The lazy native streets were still dull with the end of labor.
7
The food was plenty; the poor black people lazy and not unhappy.
8
He also said the media was lazy and wanted to be spoon-fed.
9
It was really quite lazy to say they all looked the same.
10
This week has been a good one for lazy, couch-bound iPad owners.
11
National MPs said the bill was a lazy, sloppy piece of work.
12
She says older generations who think her generation is lazy are wrong.
13
They were workers; and they did not approve of the lazy Buster.
14
I'm convinced it's because many parents today are too lazy to parent.
15
Erlendur had always found Níels lazy and absolutely unsuited for detective work.
16
She might see how lazy he was and forget what she'd said.
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Lazy across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Australia
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South Africa
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