(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.)
Lusk
Definition:
(a.) Lazy; slothful.
(n.) A lazy fellow; a lubber.
(v. i.) To be idle or unemployed.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Thursday, having spent most of the day fending off allegations relating to the SIS issue, Key told media: “I think there’s a real risk that a hacker, and people with a leftwing agenda, are trying to take an election off New Zealanders.” While Ede, Lusk and Collins have avoided talking to media, Slater, the son of a former National party president, has gone on the offensive.
(2) Days before the polls took place, the EU’s foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, said : “The upcoming elections cannot produce a credible result with legitimacy throughout the country.” “By saying the elections weren’t free and fair, [western governments] are actually saying the government is no longer legitimate by implication, which is very strong stuff in their terms,” said Gillian Lusk, associate editor of Africa Confidential .
(3) This table, developed by Lusk in 1924, was derived from biochemical and physical data that are now outdated.
(4) On the basis of the ratio of total caloric intake to resting energy expenditure (REE), the nonprotein respiratory quotient (npRQ), and, when appropriate, Lusk's table for analysis of the oxidation of mixtures of carbohydrate and fat, the patients could be categorized into three groups.
(5) Robert Lusk, director of the Natural Shoe Store, the UK distributors of Birkenstocks, talks like a man in need of shiatsu, or at least a few hundred extra boxes of sandals.
(6) Other published exchanges allegedly show Slater and his associate, political consultant Simon Lusk, discussing smear campaigns to help a client win a National candidate selection, the blackmail of a sitting MP (it never happened, the MP has since insisted) and the description of those forced from their homes after the Christchurch earthquake as “scum”.
(7) Something that doesn’t come across in the news coverage about Dirty Politics, and Cameron Slater, Jason Ede, Jordan Williams, Simon Lusk et al is just how fucking awful these people are.
(8) Lusk's bemusement at the sandals' reinvention is understandable, given their inauspiciously stolid beginnings.
(9) Referring to great scientists--Harvey, Boerhaave, Black, Priestley, Scheele, Lavoisier, Liebig, Pettenkofer, Rubner, Voit, Lusk, DuBois--the change in paradigm connected with the concepts of 'life', 'substrate intake' and 'body heat' and their underlying natural phenomena is outlined.
(10) "Birkenstocks are popular across the globe," Lusk adds, "but I think this kind of mass hysteria is a peculiarly British phenomenon.
(11) In conclusion a citation of the famous American physiologist Graham Lusk (1866-1932) is mentioned from the year 1906, who praised the scientific priority of the German medical research.
(12) Equivalent npRQ values in patients who were receiving amino acids, dextrose, and lipids were determined by using Lusk's table and the percentage of total caloric intake as fat.