1
as in idle
not easily aroused to action or work
the lazy dog just wanted to lie on the couch all day and sleep
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2
as in careless
failing to give proper care and attention
that cookbook author can be lazy about giving cooking times and temperatures
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as in to bum
to spend time doing nothing
a good afternoon to spend lazying on the back porch
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Recent Examples of lazy
Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
That kind of artistic abdication can sometimes come off as lazy, but in this case there was something heartwarming about letting the enthusiastic crowd carry that weight with joy and high fives all around.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2025
Many students embraced the new technology to enable procrastination and lazy homework habits, but also, sometimes, to gain better understanding of readings.
—Joelle Renstrom
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Everyone in this country is so lazy.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Of course, some cliches are nothing but lazy thinking.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
That kind of artistic abdication can sometimes come off as lazy, but in this case there was something heartwarming about letting the enthusiastic crowd carry that weight with joy and high fives all around.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2025
Many students embraced the new technology to enable procrastination and lazy homework habits, but also, sometimes, to gain better understanding of readings.
—Joelle Renstrom
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Everyone in this country is so lazy.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lazy
Adjective
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There’s some idle speculation in the films about where the Xenomorphs sit on the evolutionary ladder, and nearly every Alien story at some point deals with the question of whether synthetic creations care about their makers.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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The display can smartly scale down to 1Hz when idle and now comes with a new anti-reflective coating.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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Protecting Users From Themselves No matter how sophisticated network defenses are, a careless action can undo them.—
Max Silber,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The programmer seems to have been a little careless.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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That’s what was bumming him out.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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To be this close over and over is really bumming me out.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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After dropping a sleepy rubber match to the Chicago White Sox on Sunday, the Tigers have lost nine of their past 13 games.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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In recent years, the government even started paying people to move to its sleepy medieval villages.—
Siobhan Reid,
Robb Report,
7 Sep. 2025
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Leaning into the disco-country of much of Man’s Best Friend, Carpenter sings about a neglectful lover.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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Parents, even the well-meaning ones, tend to be neglectful, or also dead.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Play croquet or shuffleboard on the property, head down to the beach and laze under one of the hotel’s cabanas, or borrow a bicycle to cruise into town.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
4 Sep. 2025
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Located on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, Los Cabos is a great destination to laze about beachside or go on a deep-sea excursion.—
Essence,
Essence,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Sixty-five-year-old Jep Gambardella, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and tonic, watches this parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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Her tumor appears ominous but is, by nature, indolent—slow-growing, noninvasive, never destined to threaten her life.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Scientists at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) have developed Korea’s first homegrown Liquid Air Energy Storage system, which uses surplus electricity to chill air into liquid, store it, and later release it to generate power.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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While this criticism is overstated, as a lot of his books have bone-chilling finales or thematically rich conclusions, there are certainly a lot of stories where he's failed to land the plane.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Lazy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lazy. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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