be lazy
Example Sentences
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"I've met wonderful prison officers, but I've seen some lazy ones and the keep-apart system enables them to be lazy with an excuse for being lazy."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
He does mention how their motto—“be the first one in and the last one out”—influenced his own rise in an industry where behavior can be lazy, nasty or inexplicable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
How do you make sure you’re using AI to improve what you’re doing, but not using AI to be lazy and not think?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025
It is true too that voters in all sorts of elections can be lazy in their choices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
“You wouldn’t know how to be lazy, Charlie.”
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
