Disinclined to work or exertion.
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
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Examples for "lazy"
Examples for "lazy"
1I can hear the lazy sea a short distance over the embankment.
2His lazy list of political demands may have reflected an essential pyromania.
3Route 6 went past in a long, lazy curve to the right.
4I'm quite healthy but I can also be quite lazy about it.
5A police department cruiser leads the way, lights flashing in lazy salute.
1The clinical course is heterogeneous, manifested by a fulminant or indolent course.
2In conclusion the indolent nature of the disease justifies a conservative approach.
3It is often characterized by a clinically indolent course and delayed diagnosis.
4Purpose: Patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma typically respond well to first-line immunochemotherapy.
5PCBCL is generally an indolent form of lymphoma with a good prognosis.
1It was in no way cheap; it did not flatter slothful ears.
2Indeed in sleep 5 The slothful body, that does love to steep
3Mr. Threader, by contrast, played the slothful tortoise to Drake's enterprising hare.
4Minstrels were a slothful lot, averse to the chill of early morning.
5I heard it then, the rough, fatty breathing of a slothful soul.
1They were the Mayors of that Palace; he only le roi faineant.
2An habitual drunkard was more welcome at "raisings" and "logrollings" than a known faineant.
3While a roi faineant may fulfil effectively all the essential duties of sovereignty, an autocrate faineant is an absurdity.
4I wonder if the faineant Sultan who luxuriates at Langat knows anything of the sensationalism of his "yacht."
5So long as I am in the chair, I cannot be a faineant or refuse to do anything and everything incidental to the position.
1That is the best of news for some of us work-shy or feeble gardeners.
2For all but the most lavish and work-shy couples, a honeymoon has a defined end date.
3He said I was a drug-addict, lazy, work-shy.
4And no one could ever call him work-shy.
5What are you snivelling for, you little work-shy?
Producing no result or effect.
1There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
2Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
3Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
5We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
6Ignorant of business and entrepreneurship, they occupy the dead end, otiose and pension-orientated jobs they do.
7His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom.
8But it happens to be otiose.
9A historian may be a theist; but, so far as his work is concerned, this particular belief is otiose.
10He told me he had only just got it, and he drifted away into otiose explanations of this fact.
11Such a comparison is otiose.
12If they do this sufficiently, it is otiose and impertinent to entertain the notion of creating any new theatrical agency.
13As a result, it is rather otiose to do the forecast before you have concluded what mitigation is possible, he said.
14If one based one's view of his achievement on Licht, so often theatrically naive and musically otiose, the answer might well be yes.
15Our voting system does not have any method of voting for or against any coalition combination, so this type of question is probably otiose.
16It was very cordial, and it appealed directly, only the style was otiose, but in matters of the first importance style is a hindrance.