[
UK
/lˈeɪzɪnəs/
]
[ US /ˈɫeɪzinəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɫeɪzinəs/ ]
NOUN
-
relaxed and easy activity
the laziness of the day helped her to relax - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
How To Use laziness In A Sentence
- The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness. News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
- I understand their haste but future generations may not be as sympathetic to our cowardice and laziness. Times, Sunday Times
- Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Anne Frank
- Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
- The trouble is the Internet has made it too easy to contact people and that ease translates to inherent laziness. Richard Laermer: You don't want to help, you just want help: A rant
- Though laziness is easily enough understood, I remain mystified as to why anyone who purports to follow Jesus would choose to condemn an entire population over choosing to obey Jesus 'self-proclaimed greatest commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself. John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
- If I attempted a race with the boys, I was obliged to give up from very weariness; and laughing at what they termed my laziness, they pursued their amusements without me. A Grandmother's Recollections
- If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia
- It is in fact the dark evil of laziness and ignorance disguised as an altruistic urge and that is why you rightly feel anxious!
- He is, in my estimation, entrenched in the intellectual laziness of dogma and the comforts of blinders. His is a proudly unpersuadable mind.