What's the difference between crazy and lazy?

Crazy


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
  • (a.) Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
  • (a.) Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
  • (2) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (3) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
  • (4) Updated at 8.17pm GMT 8.14pm GMT Yet another crazy statistic Seems like we’ve had a few of these today.
  • (5) Then their daughter comes in, or their wife, or their girlfriend, and they've just been to Pilates, and the next day they start looking up Pilates porn, or something crazy like that, and they feel even worse.
  • (6) The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce , has admitted his side need to pull off a couple of “crazy results” if they are to preserve their Premier League status in a frantic end-of-season run-in.
  • (7) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (8) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
  • (9) "I remember ... crying and thinking, 'I'm just gonna go crazy on him one day.'"
  • (10) This may sound crazy, but with each passing day, Major League Soccer, which shares part of sporting calendar with the baseball season, becomes more and more of a long term threat to MLB, never mind what happens when the NFL kicks off in September.
  • (11) If you can't get your child into there … It's crazy.
  • (12) Her mother said she had made her “so proud” and her “gorgeous crazy” partner had made her world “a happy place”.
  • (13) "I knew that police officers had been hurt and things were on fire and it had all got crazy," the constable said.
  • (14) You see Nadal play a tennis match,” Godín explains, “and it drives you crazy because he always does the same thing and the guy is No1.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) After a stroke (left hemisphere), which mainly produced serious aphasia, I (the patient) felt crazy two or three times when someone said something I expected him to say.
  • (17) But at the same time we were supporting the industry and talking it up, which it deserves, some of our competitors were talking it down in their own products … that’s just crazy and a lack of leadership that frankly is irresponsible and it’s got to stop.” In a rare public appearance to mark the Australian newspaper’s 50th anniversary, Mitchell said the broadsheet newspaper was worth $50m in “cover price revenue” alone and it was too soon to walk away from print.
  • (18) "Like" is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in "crazy like a fox" or "like a bat out of hell".
  • (19) And rare to see scripted too – normally women are only allowed to look dangerous if they’re playing a crazy person.
  • (20) She could actually be crazy,” and implying that she had been unfaithful for her husband.

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.)