lazy

One former cyber agent said FBI staff were furious about the "sloppy and lazy security failures" that allegedly enabled the breach.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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

The survey also helps management understand why people are violating the rules, which lets them address underlying problems instead of treating every violation as evidence that an employee is lazy or dishonest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

Day after lazy day, night after long dreaming night passed Dicey by.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Though some economists worry that a “universal basic income” would make recipients lazier, data from programs around the world suggests the opposite is true.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

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

Her companions were the lazier of the Old Sarum boys, the laziest of whom was one Albert Coningham, a slow thinker to whom Jean Louise had rendered invaluable service during six-weeks’ tests.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

“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

Her companions were the lazier of the Old Sarum boys, the laziest of whom was one Albert Coningham, a slow thinker to whom Jean Louise had rendered invaluable service during six-weeks’ tests.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 Mark Twain

But he soon sank away to sleep, from which he did not awaken until the half angry voice of Mrs. Sharp chided him loudly for "lazying it away" in bed until after sunrise.

From Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur