lazy

Overhead, a sunset dragged itself between mountaintops with such lazy beauty, I had to pull over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Even the brief imitation of Lennon’s “losing control” scream is laser-precise, meant to boost the song’s momentum and carry it through a cheery and lazy surf solo.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

But when the government’s arguments are this lazy, it is functionally impossible for Saylor to not at least implicitly acknowledge just how bad the idea is.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Others fear being seen as weak or lazy.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

“My season is one of lazy heat and forgetfulness ripening under a burning sun,” said Summer theatrically.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

We label those who outsource their work to AI as lazier and less moral, and we think they value their work less than those who don’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

While each cameo is lazier than the last, it’s a substantial supporting role from Benny Safdie — who, alongside his brother Josh, co-directed Sandler in “Uncut Gems” — that’s most grating.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025

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

A lazier filmmaker might merely have put them back together to play their greatest hits.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

“I can’t tell who is lazier, Polly or you,” Mother mut-tered as she stalked out of the room.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

She and the news crews are all playing the same game, in the laziest and most inane manner possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2021

Paloma, the laziest cat on earth, eyes us suspiciously from her velvet tower but doesn’t lift her head.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

So we lazied the fine days away, while our sea harness lay stiffening in the dark lockers.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

That was it, the whole field, unkept, idle, lazying, was thoughtless of the future.

From Stubble by George Looms

"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

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

From The Flying Legion by George Allan England

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

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