(a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(2) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
(3) "She's very agile as a performer, and is able to deliver again and again so it's a very joyful watch."
(4) Joe Roberson, a digital consultant who co-managed Innovation Labs believes the charity sector is still a far way behind other sectors when it comes to developing apps and this is due to a lack of understanding of how business and lean or agile design thinking can help them move forward digitally.
(5) Therefore it is reasonable to consider the described model as a simple, agile and economic instrument adaptable to other cases, although still to be perfected.
(6) Paul Golby, chief executive of E.ON in Britain, said: "We had to undertake a deep and rigorous review of how much money we spend in order to ensure we keep costs as low as possible for our customers, become a more agile organisation and build a sustainable business in the UK.
(7) A spokesman for the producers said viewers of the semi-final had seen that winner Jules O’Dwyer’s act involved several dogs who participated alongside Matisse to help perform her “unique mixture of dog agility and storytelling”.
(8) Now, I think that Corbyn’s parliamentary and political past is integral both to his appeal and his problems and, as a phenomenon, he’s quite different to Podemos , who are agile and flexible.
(9) By streamlining its governance, the Premier League was more agile than its predecessors.
(10) New site-specific endonucleases LplI and AagI have been isolated from the Lactobacillus plantarum and Achromobacter agile cells, respectively.
(11) It is a compelling argument, which – as the referendum that will make or break him looms – Mr Cameron should be agile enough to make.
(12) Act more like a lobby group – an insider rather than outsider – recruit people of influence inside the chamber to support your bill, have a fantastic website and a responsive, well-managed Facebook page, invest in research and polling, make story-telling central to your message, be bipartisan, make friends with corporate Australia, and have a movement that is agile but built for endurance.
(13) The Home Office regards “operational agility” and problems of setting a precedent for judicial involvement in executive decisions as main considerations in the new regime.
(14) "Malcolm was a fantastic raconteur, with a brilliant and agile creative mind.
(15) The group of public-minded cybersecurity volunteers proposed a “hippocratic oath” for connected medical devices last week, suggesting that manufacturers of the devices (which pose tempting targets and can cause huge personal suffering if hacked) abide by a set of principles including supporting “prompt, agile and secure updates” and working with third-party researchers to ensure potential security issues can be safely reported.
(16) But although some surgeons stop operating as they get older, aware that they are not physically as agile or alert as they once were, nobody knew how long their period of excellence lasted.
(17) The developer promised “more varied gameplay” and a greater degree of experimentation on this sequel (the opportunity to take safer, longer routes for example, in favour of the quicker, more perilous options) but the same projectile-like sense of agility and rapidity that defined the original seems to have been retained.
(18) The remaining four Baltic Sea species, "A. agile," "A. kieliense," "A. luteum," and "A. sanguineum," could not be placed in the new subdivision of Agrobacterium.
(19) The world is full of savvy, agile competitors who know quality makes a difference."
(20) Labor sources say Turnbull’s talk about “agility” and “innovation” goes down like a lead balloon in these electorates.
Lazy
Definition:
(superl.) Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
(superl.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
(superl.) Wicked; vicious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The "lazy-T" technique consists of a surgical horizontal and vertical shortening of the involved portion of the lower eyelid.
(2) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(3) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(4) But Shukrallah says groups like Dostour are weak not through laziness but because they were not allowed to develop under Mubarak and his predecessors.
(5) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
(6) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
(7) All Cavendishes are lazy by nature, and my entire life has been a battle against indolence.
(8) The logic is transitive and not direct: by “inner cities” Ryan meant black; by describing black men as not “learning” the “value and culture of work” – and since Charles Murray has called poor people “lazy” – Ryan was saying black men were lazy.
(9) Even more pointedly, he attacked the common Republican philosophical refuge of the doctrine of unintended consequences, or, as he put it, “We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.” “The bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy,” he said, and the previous six hours of debate coverage on Fox News could have told you as much.
(10) I see evidence for this every week when I hear otherwise bright and articulate students justify their political opinions with vague, lazy arguments.
(11) In his book Fight the Power , Chuck rails against everything from Hollywood to the sports industry for portraying blacks as 'watermelon stealin', chicken eatin', knee knockin', eye poppin' lazy, crazy, dancin', submissive, Toms.
(12) Hate the smoking ban, HS2, Brussels, travellers, burqas, regulation, tax, Boris, debt, windfarms, quangos, foreign aid, crime, Abu Qatada, Muslims, tuition fees, lazy people, asylum seekers, the hunting ban?
(13) Perpetuating the myth that DLA prevents disabled people from working just stirs the assertion that disabled people are lazy scroungers, when the truth is that they would like nothing more than to work and contribute like everyone else.
(14) Their MPs tend to spend years chipping away at their seats before they win, getting under the skin of places in a way other parties don't, and once elected tend not to get lazy or complacent.
(15) David Miliband's heartache at leadership loss revealed in new Hillary Clinton emails Read more Longtime Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal also wrote a number of memos to the secretary of state on American politics, including one describing the current Speaker of the House, John Boehner, as “louche, alcoholic [and] lazy” while predicting that Mitt Romney would run for president on a ticket with former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, whom he compared to Dick Cheney.
(16) This weather pushes players to be a bit lazy, to lose a bit of tension, a bit of sharpness, after that you pass slow, you do not react to the second balls, the time goes on and on, then when you wake up, it is half-time.
(17) David Ruffley, a Conservative MP on the Treasury select committee, said other risk-taking bankers and lazy regulators should also be examined.
(18) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
(19) Such curiosity is not a big ask, and demanding such rigorous thinking from tutors seems a much more effective way of getting diverse students into top universities than creating a mythical list of "better" subjects, writing them into the league tables and thereby sanctioning the lazy dismissal of anyone who does not fit the mould.
(20) (And the tech, if I wasn’t as lazy, could help me get better at cooking.)