laziness

[ UK /lˈe‍ɪzɪnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɫeɪzinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. relaxed and easy activity
    the laziness of the day helped her to relax
  2. apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
  3. inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
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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.
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