as in inertia
an inclination not to do work or engage in activities
although she often talks about ambitious household projects, nothing even gets started because of her chronic laziness
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1
as in idle
not easily aroused to action or work
the lazy dog just wanted to lie on the couch all day and sleep
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2
as in careless
failing to give proper care and attention
that cookbook author can be lazy about giving cooking times and temperatures
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as in to bum
to spend time doing nothing
a good afternoon to spend lazying on the back porch
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Recent Examples of laziness
Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The daters Julie Nguyen works with are more likely to be floored by the laziness, spelling errors, and sheer audacity of the people on the other end.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 11 Aug. 2025
Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
As for the tourney’s final broadcast, NBC figures the lazy Sunday allure of afternoon channel surfing should help lure viewers to the links during breaks in the NFL action.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Slides, hoodie w/ headphones just signals laziness.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The daters Julie Nguyen works with are more likely to be floored by the laziness, spelling errors, and sheer audacity of the people on the other end.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Sarin Mathews Women’s Sweatpants A comfortable pair of pants is a wardrobe essential for everything from long flights to lazy days at home.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
As for the tourney’s final broadcast, NBC figures the lazy Sunday allure of afternoon channel surfing should help lure viewers to the links during breaks in the NFL action.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laziness
Noun
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And by the inertia of ownership.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Character animations are slick, but reliable in their control and inertia — rarely leading to flubs caused by anything other than player error.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This significantly decreases the likelihood of collateral damage on the forces deployed by a security guarantor, allowing that partner to be a neutral and idle spectator rather than an active belligerent.—
Omar Al-Ubaydli,
semafor.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Without judgment, integration, and discernment, the technology sits idle.—
Christopher Lind,
Big Think,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But Thomas has been lazy all year and lost a catch Sunday being careless with his feet on what should have been an easy completion on the sideline, unable to get a second foot down with a lot of room.—
Michael Salfino,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The subsequent uncertainty and introspection are exacerbated during a pre-festival press conference, which becomes a flashpoint when the cast and crew come under fire for an allegedly careless adaptation.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
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Democrats’ most visible strategy appears to be trying to bum a few bucks from the grassroots—when the grassroots’ greatest power is in protest, boycott, and other unified mobilization efforts.—
Sarah Stankorb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Alabama gave Georgia its first home loss in six years with a 24-21 constriction; Oregon rode a pair of Moores (Dante and Dakorien) to bum out Happy Valley in extra time.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike Bacalar, which is relatively new to tourism, Tulum has been transformed from a sleepy backwater into a pumping party town.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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Most days are quiet in Armenia’s sleepy southern province of Syunik.—
Michele Crestani,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In June 2024, a U.S. Senate Finance Committee released a report that exposed the abusive and neglectful practices of youth residential treatment facilities like the fictional Tall Pines Academy.—
Erin McMullen,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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This film would have brought the Harlem Renaissance and its luminaries to far greater prominence, during an era that was often neglectful of that movement’s heroes—and of new Black artists, too, as Greaves himself experienced.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Instead of setting up a spot on the sand, beachgoers typically pitch their chairs in the shallow clear blue water and laze the day away.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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Conrad is literally ready to skip his whole Brussels conference in order to laze around in bed with Belly for the next several days, but Belly has cold feet.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Sixty-five-year-old Jep Gambardella, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and tonic, watches this parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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Her tumor appears ominous but is, by nature, indolent—slow-growing, noninvasive, never destined to threaten her life.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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“Laziness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laziness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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