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lazy

[ley-zee] / ˈleɪ zi /


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You enjoyed late nights, lazy mornings balancing family fun and you time.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

I wrote an entire book about AI, and yet I’ve been too lazy to leverage its full power in my personal life.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

To label mothers who struggle as lazy and selfish is also to concede that raising kids requires hard work and sacrifice.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

Rec centers were revamped with climbing walls and lazy rivers; dorms gave way to apartment lofts with expansive lounges; campus coffee bars were established with national brands.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

A great figure was gliding in across the sky, its wings moving in lazy flaps.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

What concerns him isn’t the tool itself so much as what it could let a lazier version of himself get away with.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Use her ajvar recipe without adjustment, or opt for my lazier route, and stash containers of lutenitsa in the freezer.

From Seattle Times Aug. 8, 2023

Do our heroes become lazier as our realities become harder?

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2022

A lazier tale may have resolved this by having Stark Industries dump an angel loan upon the family from nowhere.

From Salon Apr. 17, 2021

The sound of the waves was even lazier, more drawn out than at noon.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

“Everybody’s used to seeing grizzlies on TV catching salmon out of the air at the top of some waterfall, but black bears are one of the laziest animals on the planet,” he explains.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2025

While charging a $1 annual fee may discourage the laziest bot-makers, it surely won’t prevent anyone with a real incentive—financial, political, or otherwise—to manipulate the platform for their own personal gain.

From Slate Oct. 19, 2023

If he loses, they say he overthinks, the laziest word ever to be used about Guardiola's work.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2023

Adding co-op is like finishing any dish with chili oil — it’s the laziest way to make the most unimaginatively cooked proteins pretty tasty.

From The Verge Aug. 24, 2022

Out in Madison County, the heat officially makes Miss Celia the laziest person in the U. S. of A. She won’t even get the mail out the box anymore; I have to do it.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

So he lazied with geishas, saki, talk and chess.

From Time Magazine Archive

The New York Stock Exchange tape lazied along: about 120,000 shares an hour, 610,000 shares for the full session.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied.

From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain

The two went down the road together, the Paymaster a little wearied with his years and weight or lazied by his own drams, leaning in the least degree upon the shoulder of the boy.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro

I was in the merriest humour, and lazied about the whole afternoon through the most frequented streets and looked at the people.

From Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Hot summer weekends he is apt to be lazying beside Marian Anderson's Connecticut swimming pool.

From Time Magazine Archive

"A nice big dog lazying round here would sort of complete it."

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall

That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.

From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

I came home to see you all, Betty, and to satisfy myself that you were well; when that’s done there’s no more excuse for lazying.

From Betty Trevor by Victor Prout

"And see what I've made thee while thou'st been lazying in bed—a real English ship of war."

From Harding's luck by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar




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