How To Use Lazy In A Sentence

I knew what the lady had said was just a lie cooked up by my lazy, good-for-nothing parents to get me to come home.
The healthy but lazy who claim incapacity benefit are just as morally bankrupt as those benefiting from offshore tax havens. Times, Sunday Times
Those of you too lazy to hit the last link won't understand this, but the key to a successful performance of this story is to remain deadpan. Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
A part of me wants to snuggle up against his side and let him loop a lazy arm around my shoulders, but another part knows that I can't.
People on welfare are wrongly seen as lazy or dishonest.

The crunch leaves of autumn had shrivelled and the sun was a lazy, dusky peach colour.
I'm a lazy good-for-nothing at heart, so I don't want to waste my precious leisure time paying bills.
But how do you make sure you don't tip into demanding too much or go too far the other way and get lazy about asserting your needs? The Sun
Judging from these movies, Mark Wilkinson is evidently some kind of caecilian-hunting guru genius: with just two lazy, shallow strokes of a spade, he was able to discover two caecilians in their native habitat. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Lazy Susans, pullout shelves, and special trays can make kitchen cabinets much more useful.
Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
THOSE lazy hazy days of summer now come at a cost. Times, Sunday Times
Even as he watched, a droplet of water dripped heavily down from a stalactite far overhead, landing in the pond with fat, lazy ripples.
It all came swimming back to her, like a lazy river of memories.
W. W.rdsworth is such a lazy fellow, that I bemire myself by making promises for him: the moment I received your letter, I wrote to him. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
Facilities will include two pools with a lazy river and a bowling alley. The Sun
They have been drained of meaning by their lazy overuse, dangerously sharp and potent concepts reduced to kitsch cliché.
The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip. The Failed Project of Conservatism « Isegoria
The Aquatic Centre includes a leisure pool, lap pool, waterslide, lazy river, drop slide, sauna and hot tub.
I struggled out, disturbing the lazy whatsits as little as possible, and yawned my way in the general direction of the unusual sounds.
Man-Made is a lazy, hazy exercise in unadorned songcraft, packed with melodies that insinuate themselves with sweet simplicity.
You could have the ‘generally lazy but remarkably unhelpful’ instead of the ‘bored but capable’ as one of the essential non police staff whose main aim is to reinforce all the urgent and important things from the world where messages ‘really’ matter and the foundations of empire building are well on the way to approval by the forces that do stuff. Cross and Rude. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
It's not so much dreamy as it is lazy and indolent.
Those scientific minds brave enough to point out these obvious flaws get fired, while the insane, lazy, and stupid continue to uphold a broken system that clearly doesn't work, punishes innocent citizens, overcrowds prisons, and generally increases suffering. Allison Kilkenny: Government Adviser Fired For Saying Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drugs
And a whole lot more besides ... We drink brandy filled with lazy sunshine.
The artisans of Nice are very lazy, very needy, very aukward, and void of all ingenuity. Travels through France and Italy
Only I know how wounded my pride was when he stretched on the bed like a lazy cat and fell asleep.
I was naïve, that was for sure, young, yup, and lazy, most definitely.
Banks rely on us being a bit lazy, a bit afraid of change, and a bit ignorant about what is available.
He used jokes to deflect criticism that he was too old or lazy for the job. Times, Sunday Times
You were very lazy last term, but we'll start again with a clean sheet this term.
Yet despite all this there was an air of conservation, the odd glimpse of the Old World in a narrow dingy lane where a dray horse shifted his weight from one hock to the other, blinking lazy lashes above the nosebag containing his lunch.
Rip Van Winkle, a kindly, lazy, henpecked man, set out for a remote part of the Catskill Mountains.
We're in the middle of reviewing some pages of the BBC Style Guide that discuss journalese, the tired vocabulary of the lazy hack who insists on using tedious words because he thinks all other hacks do.
The irregular shape of the cornea distorts the image causing it to blur, unlike in a lazy eye where the eye is essentially normal.
I don't think this is proof that a majority of Americans are lazy chiselers, as some hard-core conservatives might suggest.
Don't speak, one can lazy pig to sleep with a rod, and three insolation, a person can follow one's inclinations no emotional baggage.
The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
They're too lazy to work. The Sun
He roused himself from his lazy contemplation of the scene beneath him.
Add some water to it, tape on a small blade and a tube of superglue, a spool of fishing line some weights, and a case of beer and a lazy boy (Don't forget to add a 50 inch plasma TV with all the channels,) and you're set. Survival Water Bottle
It was regarded as sloppy and lazy painting. Times, Sunday Times
The servant had a lazy habit of sweeping the dust under the edge of the mat.
Sure, you can try to be anal and disagree with my use of the term polemic, and go on and on about how you don't like someone who also used that definition to present a pretty sound model, but it's just lazy. Punknews.org
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
Annie Wagner in the Stranger: As a movie, Diggers is affable and lazy - its purpose obscured by a swarm of clichés. GreenCine Daily: Diggers.
They may display a lack of drive, initiative and concentration that may make them appear lazy.
I lived in France for four years, and I constantly ran into lazy shits from the U.S. Think Progress » North Carolina School Secretary Claims She Was Fired For Speaking Spanish To Parents
Tired and discontented housewives found their vague sorrows and vaguer longings were only the result of their "unregenerate" state; the lazy country youths felt that the frustration of their small ambitions lay in their not being Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
The lazy days we spent drinking out in the boonies.
His old eyes, brown and lazy, gazed ahead from under a slant brow.
Bilko's motor-pool privates were scruffy, lazy, unattractive slobs who liked to do as little work as possible, never paraded and were almost fearful of weaponry.
If you knew how to take care of people, you could transform 10,000 lazy, shiftless souls into 10,000 eager-to-work-for-you people.
There are also those who are lazy, incompetent or simply in the wrong job. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond that, it's tempting but lazy to link every new colourway, silhouette, fabric choice, etc, with the economic moment. Times, Sunday Times
When I get lazy or tired, I get slouchy.
Observation shows that forged paintings are usually offered to novice art collectors, art buffs who are too lazy to learn about the subject or those who believe they are really knowledgeable in art matters.
As I've said before (I think, but I'm too lazy to check), I'd prefer "nontheistic" to Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Reeking of managerial sub-thinking, the words chosen to sum up the new policy also sum up the current predicament of the party as a whole: stuck in the middle, unambitious and lazy.
I'm blessed if I'm going to do cook an 'stooard's work single-handed, an' you lazy rascallion a caulkin 'all over the ship! The Island Treasure
I would've enjoyed this more if I hadn't just read Stephen King railing against adverbs and lazy writing.
I think I've thought up an appropriate competitor name The Paper...you know, like The Rock, only wussier, but I haven't come up with any fake biographical information, a fake self-reported skill level, or anything like that, because I've been too busy...well, too lazy. My meager attempt to spice things up.
Back then, it was lazy weekends picnicking by - and whooshing down - the natural sandstone water chute at Slide Rock.
These appealed to the bright but intellectually lazy prince, who grew to hold military and martial values above all others. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
He had to be a gentleman: clubbable, competent, courteous and fair; but he had also to be not so gentlemanly as to be lazy or independent of his master.
He saw Anglicans, with honourable exceptions, as lazy pluralists.
I'm lazy and profligate by nature, and have expensive tastes by nurture. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
Are people being lazy or just foolish? Times, Sunday Times
And she told me, after she had looked it all over and said it wuz kinder thin and slazy, and checkered shawls had gone out of fashion, and the black looked some as if it would fade with washin ', and the white wuzn't over clear, and the colors wuzn't no ways becomin' to her complexion, and etcetery, etcetery. Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3
Her latest novel is perfect for a lazy summer's afternoon reading.
The servant had a lazy habit of sweeping the dust under the edge of the mat.
These being ball joints, however, I just have to get off my lazy butt and apply some future floor wax to fix both issues.
He's not lazy, they say, he just can't stop eating and his metabolism retains everything.
I was feeling too lazy to go out.
The village of Kakariko, a lazy and sleepy town at the foothills of Death Mountain, was shrouded in a tired and laid back theme.
In baseball though, the boy played flawlessly, often reaching second safely on a lazy groundball hit to the second baseman. A Boy Who Looks Like Horses, or A Horse Who Looks Like Boys
This must be done in a way that does not excuse lazy or complacent money management. Times, Sunday Times
He penned a large chunk of the epic The Lord of the Rings here, inspired by the rural patchwork of hedges, meadows and woodlands rolling down to the lazy River Ribble.
The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.
How to Become an Alpha Male by John Alexander. â€œDubbed â€˜The lazy man's way to easy success with 20 or more women a month, â€ ™ How to Become an Alpha Male is the no-risk, never-fail blueprint on how to 'magnetically' attract an endless flow of beautiful women to you ... without ever having to play their games or deal with rejection. â€ [$48.80! The Publishing Contrarian
Jamaica's lush interior is stunning, and the best way to see it is on a lazy river ride, being punted on your own personal bamboo raft.
I tried to help out, trying to not seem all that selfish and let him do the work and all, but alas, he insisted on me just sitting on my lazy bum and watch him.
Teachers were also criticised for being too lazy to learn pupils' names. Times, Sunday Times
The plot is contrived in a lot of places and uses some lazy devices in others.
like a fertile ground for learning, as long as hard work, there will be many of the fruit; if lazy work, when other people jump when the harvest dance, you have a regret.
There are also massive continuity errors and shoddy production values that aid a lazy script by writers with no interest in doing research.
This one is my gift to all the lazy people who happen upon my blog and cant be bothered to plough any further to discover the bounteous and wondrous delights contained herein.
But most clergy are not lazy; they work hard. Christianity Today
My brother's blue wide apart butterfly wing eyes, a lazy eye made them look wider, and curly eyelashes.
Outlaw rarely gallops, no longer butts, only periodically kicks, comes in to the pole and does her work without attempting to vivisect Maid's medulla oblongata, and -- marvel of marvels -- is really and truly getting lazy. FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR
The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
Swift was as disgusted by the moral disease of human gluttony as he was by its lazy and revolting cures, so much so that he became obsessed with scatological matters and eventually went mad.
Another minor point here is the lazy use of the term Orwellian in Anthony's piece, to describe the revolutionary fraternity associated with the term 'Brother.' Cambodia: Details are Sketchy
For three weeks, I spent lazy afternoons keeping my mouth shut while listening to my grandmother gossip about young women who ruined their reputations by being seen unchaperoned.
* It never occured to me, that she did not have any time to organize them, I just assumed it was some kind of neglectful lazy oversight on her part, and felt genetically ashamed that a) she could not seem to keep her coupons organized and b) that we were the kind of family that needed to use coupons. Wendchymes Diary Entry
Like so many, I am beyond fed up with an inert, intellectually lazy, nepotistic ALP that refuses to grasp the dangerous long term implications of the current government.
To help him, I hold his pen, and click the ballpoint in and out, so it won't go effete and lazy between clues.
They are unsubtle gifts bought for lazy loved ones by nagging loved ones. Times, Sunday Times
Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
See Republican critic after Republican critic blast these money-grubbing, greedy, lazy, freeloading moneybags who are offensively overpaid, get off work at a leisurely 2:30 in the afternoon, have three months of vacation, and can live off their fat pensions in high-life luxury retirement, jetting to Paris and Biarritz and drinking champagne cocktails while sucking the life out of the Real America. Robert J. Elisberg: Revealed: Who Actually Caused America's Financial Collapse
As a result he was scolded by the cowherd's wife as a lazy ‘good-for-nothing,’.
See the fat snakes of muscle a-crawlin 'soft an' lazy-like. Chapter II
It may be that the mental side is weak; that it is lazy and does not want to think; that the only food it craves is the sensational, and light, _very light_ reading and not much of that. The Girl and Her Religion
He may be fat, but he is not soft, not stupid, not lazy, he knows his business and he probably doesn't have patience for idiocy.
She drawled in that slow,lazy style of hers.
There's a natural stone pool for lazy afternoons. Times, Sunday Times
Reserves or not, they must ensure the lazy legacy of this ambled afternoon does not blunt their sharpness in the next phase. Times, Sunday Times
Have to make do with quick dip and lazy lie under the fronds.
We have spent so long listening to them telling us we are stupid, lazy no-hopers that the majority of my people actually believe it.
What can we do to urge these lazy workers to greater production?
While the teens spend a lost weekend in the countryside, the director makes lazy points about the follies of youth.
With its clear glass walls the main reading room resembles a fish tank, brimming with lazy activity as readers come and go.
Now that many of these houses are in foreclosure, lazy and fraudulent bankers chose to "robotize" themselves by signing documents for court statements without bothering to verify their accuracy. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Automated Greed Factories: How Soulless Banking Is Crushing the Economy
Brits should be getting their lazy behinds down to the polling stations to cast their votes today.
So that an individual who habitually overfeeds becomes, after a time, easily tired, physically lazy, weak, perhaps if temperamentally predisposed, nervous and hypochondriacal. No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes
Today will be a somewhat lazy day, hanging out with Moose, watching some flicks, bugging the cats and then off to class. * brrr * I wish it weren't so cold, though.
If you are such a lazy, dishonest bum as to disagree with that basic premise, then we are not having a conversation about political economy.
I'm feeling pretty slothful and despondent today, so I've took the lazy option of filling a bit of blogspace by copying down one of those questionnaires that I so detest.
Down the line, officials are lazy and incompetent. The Sun
The world has become lazy and complacent. Times, Sunday Times
But this review is so rife with filler and inconsistencies itself that I wonder if it isn't just another instance of lazy writing.
My mother banned me from starting up a micronation ever again, unless I could back it up with sufficient armoury and investment capital, which of course I never could, being a very lazy kid. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
Stories like this have nothing to do with political correctness and to align the two is lazy thinking and lazy writing.
Plans for the 40,000 square-foot zone include a beachside wave pool, a wild water river, two splash flumes, a lazy river ride and spa and plunge pools.
I'm about as hardcore a libertarian as they come, but I have to say I find Mr. Kling's attempt to pin the entirely progressive philosophy on a kind of pathology is a bit dishonest and intellectually lazy. In Which Ezra Shows Why He is not Close to Conversion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat.
We learned to takeoff, land, spin, stall, perform precision turns, lazy eights, pylon eights and aerobatics.
Hence the $6.99 chicken shawarma at LZ, which is the cheapest (and probably most familiar-sounding) item on the menu, and therefore a tempting choice for the lazy or un-curious eater. Undefined
She has a lazy eye, bubbling behind a thrift store sticky patch. Times, Sunday Times
This track though is slightly different, as its not the usual foot-tapping number that they usually write, more of a lovely lazy laid back blissed out gentle tune…
They are unsubtle gifts bought for lazy loved ones by nagging loved ones. Times, Sunday Times
That arrogant, lazy smile swept across his stupid snobbish face as he halted, blocking my path.
I am a slightly lazy, time-poor, unpretentious pragmatist. Times, Sunday Times
But this garbology doesn't solve the most perplexing mystery to neatnik office cleaners: How can some people be so lazy. Cleaning Staffs Keep
The huge restaurant is perfect for lounging away lazy afternoons. Times, Sunday Times
He was ill educated, unintelligent, lacking in common sense, careless of his duties, immoral, and lazy.
We spent a lazy day on the beach sunbathing.
Cats aren't by nature lazy about grooming themselves and the results of poor personal hygiene can be distressing for them.
He's a classic example of a kid who's clever but lazy.
They're too lazy to work. The Sun
It is named for its most famous inhabitant, Nevin Nollop, who developed the popular pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Archive 2009-05-01
The lazy warmth of a tropical evening flushes through my limbs.
A great many people are spoiled, lazy whiners.
Li Yen is the signature restaurant of The Ritz-Carlton and has the snug atmosphere of a private Cantonese club, albeit one enlivened with the bright, cascading notes of a yang quin, or traditional hammered dulcimer, and the chatter of prosperous Chinese families spinning their lazy susans. Kuala Lumpur Update
Hark at him calling me lazy when he never walks anywhere if he can drive!
like a fertile ground for learning, as long as hard work, there will be many of the fruit; if lazy work, when other people jump when the harvest dance, you have a regret.
The silence here in the campo is a rhythmic one, the grasshoppers and other nighttime singers chant some droned out lazy call for the dancing fireflies. Archive 2007-10-01
Such membership then permitted the dominant society to make the slaves ‘rightless.’ The slaves were also designated by masters as ignorant, backward, lazy, and untrustworthy, among many other negative characteristics.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert A. Heinlein
Mina might have to spend the rest of her life tied to a lazy good-for-nothing, but it would be different for Emerald. YELLOW BIRD
Those Obama supporters are probably really lazy anyway, or looking to "injure" themselves on the job so that they can suck off the workers 'comp claim and eventually file for disability. Center for American Progress Action Fund
What a disgusting, lazy attempt to dismiss the national scandal of rail overcrowding. The Sun
But how do you make sure you don't tip into demanding too much or go too far the other way and get lazy about asserting your needs? The Sun
I pitied the poor souls who would listen to the rambling of the senile teachers on this most lazy day.
Lazy Ways to Make a Living is the unputdownable story of Rose, an academic, who resigned from her university post because the Dean would not forgive her campaign for the use of the imperative in the department's mission statement.
Ambrose, thought I to myself, my devout Ambrose is either at church, or abominably lazy this morning.
they spent a lazy summer at the shore
That's just the lazy shiftlessness of your folks," responded Ezekiel with prompt ungallantry. The Argonauts of North Liberty
Also, while I'm too lazy to look for it, when the subject of women not having fetishes came up a few years ago I wondered whether that might be because for maybe thousands of years have been under ... quite a lot of pressure since childhood to "powerfully and persistently displace sexual interest onto objects, behaviors, or situations other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotypically normal, consenting adult human partners. Figleaf's Real Adult Sex
The lazy student promised to reform
Follow the hilarity as a lazy man is forced to retake 12 years of school before his father will leave him the family business. The Sun
To be "unassailable" -- to exchange the soul of a Viking for that of a New Yorker, that of the quick pike for that of the lazy carp whose fat back grows moss covered in a dangerless pond -- that must never become the wish of a German. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915
For two minutes you slide above the top deck and at points rush over the ocean before dropping into the lazy river. The Sun
TWO lazy postmen failed to deliver nearly 200,000 junk mail leaflets. The Sun
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
I'm too lazy to make my own. Times, Sunday Times
The collusion between the two was so evident that their attempts to conceal it appeared very slazy. Boy Scouts in an Airship; or, the Warning from the Sky
Her lazy swimming halted, and her feet found the rough surface of the bottom of the pool.
Its foppishness, the daily lazy routine of not beginning the day till late into the afternoon; the emphasis placed on poets and poetry and other cultural activities make for interesting reading.
Offshore, great rafts of the seabirds rise and fall slowly on lazy swells, their white heads glowing in the faint afternoon sun beneath an approaching line of dark clouds.
Of those, between one third and one half have a type of lazy eye known as anisometropia, which is caused by a difference in the degree of nearsightedness or farsightedness between the two eyes. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
If you see a bit of lazy newspaper copy promoting our former favourite as some kind of internet sensation, you know where it came from.
On this account it was given the name argon, signifying lazy or idle. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
Someone should take him aside and point out that ‘deus ex’ equals lazy writing.
The servant had a lazy habit of sweeping the dust under the edge of the mat.
And this means that lazy gardeners have been given extra time to transplant deciduous trees and shrubs since they are still dormant. The Sun
After wolves were exterminated within the park boundaries, Yellowstone filled with fat, lazy elk that hung out by streams and ate the aspen and willow seedlings down to their nubs.
I could happily enjoy a really lazy holiday in Capraia.
The stereotype of lazy welfare mothers and fathers is an exception rather than a rule.
I was working at home and there were lazy leftovers for lunch in the Tupperware. Times, Sunday Times
This totally explodes the theory of a long life necessarily being a lazy one.
They called it lazy, they called it 'slacktivism'. Times, Sunday Times
Teachers were also criticised for being too lazy to learn pupils' names. Times, Sunday Times
Lazy folks [people] take the most pains.
Are people being lazy or just foolish? Times, Sunday Times
Although she had her own money, she wasn't going to support a lazy bum that had no job or career.
Jamaica's lush interior is stunning, and the best way to see it is on a lazy river ride, being punted on your own personal bamboo raft.
We re a nice little selfish country of petroholics, and that has made us lazy, said Frederic Hauge, president of Bellona , Norways largest nongovernmental environmental organization.
My lazy-ass brither in law is actually starting a job today. Mrbradley Diary Entry
Beyond is a bountiful land of olives and vines, lazy rivers and beautiful towns. Times, Sunday Times
Ethan went on in a lazy drawl, as he concentrated on starting the car engine.
‘We [viz fat people] are normally considered to be lazy, slobbish and lacking in moral fibre,’ she declares.
I may have had comics at the front of my brain when writing that and perhaps comics are a little behind in terms of artistic exploration, but a lot of the time such writing reads like a cop-out or just plain lazy.
Knocking copy is simply lazy journalism.
The irregular shape of the cornea distorts the image causing it to blur, unlike in a lazy eye where the eye is essentially normal.
A lazy grin spreading over his sleepy face, Shanza burrowed into the heat happily, nose pressed against something soft and pliant.
Your inner perfectionist will tell you that anything less than full, unbridled perfectionism is lazy, unacceptable and just plain wrong. 5 Battle Strategies for Winning the War on Perfectionism | Write to Done
Pot of lazy garlic and some frozen chopped onions (my only concessions to tetraplegia). Times, Sunday Times
He is fat, lazy, moody, gluttonous, horny and pretty much constantly drunk or high on hashish.
As a pointer on the fallacies of lazy thinking based on faith rather than facts, it makes a great read.

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