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Lazily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a lazy manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New Zealand 0-1 McMillan c Harbhajan b Zaheer 0 A half-arsed shout for lbw first ball, and then this: McMillan clips the ball lazily off his legs to square leg, and it's an easy catch for Singh.
  • (2) The latter is sometimes lazily described as a thinktank but is much more ambitious.
  • (3) Poppies in the long grass, frogs croaking for mates, wasps droning lazily at the window, tomatoes and strawberries ripening in garden pots and crickets buzzing at dusk: these are the sights and sounds of an English summer.
  • (4) And the language they used came clad in them-and-us and all the touches that I’d lazily assumed had gone the way of Jim Davidson comedy LPs.
  • (5) In fact, there's something lazily appealing about the idea that science doesn't know everything, that you must simply look for guidance to the chimp.
  • (6) A lazily sycophantic Tory commentariat will usually swallow most of what their leaders say, regardless of what they do.
  • (7) Just like he did in front of the CIA’s memorial wall, Trump centered the message on himself, speaking about black history ostensibly to black people more lazily than when he talked about “Two Corinthians” to Christians.
  • (8) How hard can it be?” I raged, as it sat lazily in the corner.
  • (9) But this is a reform that could revolutionise our lives at work and at home; a policy that will be lazily labelled as being all about women, but is actually a driving force for men’s rights, too.
  • (10) A spokeswoman for the prime minister lazily swatted questions away, referring to a story four years ago that revealed the existence of the investment fund.
  • (11) A tiger heron flaps lazily past our canoe, electric blue Morpho butterflies jolt the eye, spiders the size of an adult's hand sit on branches, and kingfishers flash past.
  • (12) The wide release of Men, Women, and Children this weekend proved emphatically that our TV and movie families need to be more than just lazily “dysfunctional”.
  • (13) However, I deliberately chose not to touch on this death because regardless of the circumstances and the understandable grief of Duggan's family, focusing on this case would have neatly fed the lazily wicked and sadly too often unchallenged media narrative that equates being young and black with being criminal and dangerous.
  • (14) But Bee ended by crediting Conway for doing the hard graft while Trump has lazily reaped the rewards.
  • (15) The combination of this with the gritty urbanism of the city sees it frequently (perhaps lazily) compared with Berlin - Belgrade is intriguing in its own unique way.
  • (16) At worst, it's a contender for gaming raspberry of the year – a slapdash effort that frankly feels unfinished, with mechanics lazily copied from far-superior games.
  • (17) The city lazily dubbed by some as the capital of Brexit has once again proven to the world that we are so much more than that,” he said.
  • (18) 12.51pm BST 25th over: Sri Lanka 72-2 (Jayawardene 5, Sangakkara 15) Plunkett returns to his bang-it-in length – Jayawardene rocks back and almost lazily pulls him for four.
  • (19) "I'm hoping that a long view will help us get beyond the simple diagnosis of 'misogyny' that we tend a bit lazily to fall back on.
  • (20) Some bits are cherished in coin collections or tax havens – others are left to fend for themselves down the back of sofas or in the budgets of lazily written action movies.

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.)

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