Meaning of lazy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. comfortable
2. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
3. convenient
4. Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
5. Showing a lack of effort or care.
6. Sluggish; slow-moving.
7. Lax:
8. Droopy.
9. Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
10. Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
11. Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
12. Wicked; vicious.
    UK, dialectal, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Get out of bed, you lazy lout!”

“If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.”

“"I'm too lazy," he said. "My wife says I'm the laziest man in all Oz, and she is a truthful woman. I hate work of any kind, and making a raft is hard work."”

“I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.”

“lazy writing”

“So it was this beautiful young woman Rokoff had been persecuting. Tarzan wondered in a lazy sort of way whom she might be, and what relations one so lovely could have with the surly, bearded Russian.”

“We strolled along beside a lazy stream.”

“a lazy-eared rabbit”

“There was probably more cattle bearing the Lazy S brand marketed than those of any other ranch in the world.”

“The Zuliagas branded a Lazy B. In order to distinguish his cows from theirs for the drive back to Arizona, Mr. Day added a britchen brand across their butts, under their tails.”

“a lazy algorithm”

“The swilland dropsy enter in The lazy cuke , and swell his skin”

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