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lazy

[ley-zee] / ˈleɪ zi /


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This made him angry and he called her rude and lazy, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The 3.6-acre estate features a wading pool and an infinity pool that are connected by a lazy river.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

The case for a lazy Sunday: Got weekend plans?

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

Instead of continuing to craft lazy and reactionary half-measures, policymakers must step up and deliver the protections the public wants and needs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Bet their mamas and daddies’ words tumble out slow and lazy just like mine.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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

He knew everything about each member of his flock: he knew which ones were lame, which one was to give birth two months from now, and which were the laziest.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Munro, Neil

We lazied the rest of the pleasant afternoon away, some dozing under the trees, some smoking cob-pipes and talking sweethearts and war, some playing games.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

So we would put in the day, lazying around, listening to the stillness.

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

Billy came back and lay beside her, lazying in the sea-cool sunshine, and together they watched the sun sink into the horizon where the ocean was deepest peacock-blue.

From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack

A light breeze, lazying over the plain, stirred the fronded tufts of the date-palms' thick plantations.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan

Therefore there is plenty of room for reposeful lazying and lounging, and for exercise too, for such as like that kind of work.

From Following the Equator, Part 2 by Twain, Mark




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