What's the difference between lazy and lubber?

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.)

Lubber


Definition:

  • (n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 12.25pm: "Björn Lubbers mentioned in his email you posted at 10am that 'the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ...', emails Karin Prill.
  • (2) Meanwhile the Ceres report, launched by its president Mindy Lubber, highlights not only the widespread environmental and social impact of oil sands development, but also the high production costs and limited market for this fuel, for which companies have committed $200 billion in investments.
  • (3) Whether it was leaning through the ropes to interview Ali, as he famously did between rounds during a one-sided fight for "The Greatest" against the Dutchman Rudi Lubbers, or coming up with quips such as "the ego has landed" as Hamed somersaulted over the ropes to enter the ring, Reg always managed to remember that he was entertaining his audience.
  • (4) Cynthia Brzak An American employee of the UN High Commission for Refugees who accused the high commissioner at the time, the former Dutch minister Ruud Lubbers, of sexual harassment in May 2004.
  • (5) Björn Lubbers: "Karin [12.25pm], you're absolutely right.
  • (6) Ruud Lubbers, the former Dutch prime minister, is also attending.
  • (7) Lubbers resigned in 2005 after the report was leaked, showing the investigation upheld Brzak's complaint.
  • (8) Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, said the action by the banks and the food industry, along with China’s promise to enact a cap-and-trade program to curb climate emissions, are beginning to shift the debate in the US.
  • (9) Two neuropeptides with adipokinetic activity in Locusta migratoria and hypertrehalosaemic activity in Periplaneta americana were purified by high-performance liquid chromatography from the corpus cardiacum of the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
  • (10) Mindy Lubber , president of Ceres, a global coalition of investors concerned about climate change, said the secretary general’s decision to attend the march “sent a very important signal” about the importance of the summit.
  • (11) 10am: "Hi from a German living in the Netherlands," begins Björn Lubbers.
  • (12) The condition of skin autografts and allografts in rats and rabbits was checked by transcutaneous PO2 measurement according to R. HUCH, D. W. LUBBERS and A. HUCH.
  • (13) But given the staunch opposition to climate action among Republican party leaders, finding a pathway to congressional action will take time, Lubber acknowledged.
  • (14) Mindy Lubber is president of Ceres , a nonprofit organization mobilizing business and investor leadership on climate change and other global sustainability threats Read more stories like this: UN Climate Summit must show climate change action is in everyone’s interests World on track to be 4C warmer by 2100 because of missed carbon targets Advertisement Feature : 3 structural changes needed for a sustainable financial sector The finance hub is funded by EY.
  • (15) An octadecapeptide capable of inducing pigment dispersion in the chromatophores of the fiddler crab Uca pugilator has been isolated from lyophilized heads of the lubber grasshopper Romalea microptera.
  • (16) Who better than Exxon Mobil to start answering the tough questions about the inevitable transition to a low-carbon global economy?” Mindy Lubber, president of the green investor network Ceres, said.