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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lazy people
lazy days
a lazy evaluation
a sloppy evaluation
an imprecise evaluation
a poor evaluation
an insufficient evaluation
an inefficient evaluation
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Recent Examples of lazy
Danielle Owen, Parents, 31 July 2025
The incident occurred on Thursday, July 24 at the Boardwalk, a park attraction featuring water slides, a lazy river and a 387,000-gallon wave pool.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 29 July 2025
July 28 is National Water Park Day, so grab your swimsuits and hit the water slide or tube down a lazy river!
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 27 July 2025
This 677-room, family-friendly property gives you access to waterslides, a lazy river, and a lagoon pool, plus an array of restaurants and bars that will keep you full throughout your stay.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2025
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After zipping down waterslides and floating around the lazy river, the three of us snuggled in our towels, munching on french fries in a cabana at Aqua Nick.
—Danielle Owen, Parents, 31 July 2025
The incident occurred on Thursday, July 24 at the Boardwalk, a park attraction featuring water slides, a lazy river and a 387,000-gallon wave pool.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 29 July 2025
July 28 is National Water Park Day, so grab your swimsuits and hit the water slide or tube down a lazy river!
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 27 July 2025
This 677-room, family-friendly property gives you access to waterslides, a lazy river, and a lagoon pool, plus an array of restaurants and bars that will keep you full throughout your stay.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lazy
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Those with a relationship cash value of less than $250,000 can get 0.15% APY on their idle funds, while the largest accounts – those with $10 million or above in cash balances – can pick up 2.28%.—
Darla Mercado, CFP®,
CNBC,
22 July 2025
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Years passed and the farming operation fizzled, then the barn sat idle for nearly three decades.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
17 July 2025
Adjective
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Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
8 July 2025
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Paired with the gray-ish green color palette, sparse decor, and dark atmospherics in the Institute itself, the bleak vibes may be enough to turn some viewers off for good, especially those horror purists who tune in hoping to be terrified rather than just bummed out.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 July 2025
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In a lot of ways obviously, devastated and bummed out.—
Mike Fitzpatrick,
Baltimore Sun,
5 July 2025
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As the sleepy sports calendar did its usual job of throttling Peacock’s momentum on the customer-acquisition front, the losses at Comcast’s legacy cable unit were similarly predictable.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
31 July 2025
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Now, both parties are stepping up their efforts to win control of state legislatures across the country, shining a fresh light on races that have long been considered sleepy affairs.—
Kristina Karisch,
The Hill,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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One of the children was discovered in a neglectful condition in August, according to court records.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
15 June 2025
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Hinchliffe Stadium originally opened in 1932 and hosted the Negro Leagues’ New York Black Yankees and the American Soccer League’s New Jersey Eagles in the late 1980s before shuttering in 1996 after many neglectful years without maintenance and upkeep.—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
Verb
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These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
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The researchers observed that this particular population of orangutans also build slightly simpler nests for daytime naps, in contrast to other groups which frequently just laze on bare branches.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
25 June 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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Screening disproportionately detects indolent tumors—those less likely to be lethal in the first place.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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After chilling the base, each version develops its distinct personality, with chocolate and cookies for one, and brown sugar and balsamic for the other.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 July 2025
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Tinder match recounts chilling conversation with Kohberger A woman who matched with Kohberger on the dating app Tinder in the fall of 2022 made a tip to authorities in March 2024 and was later interviewed by detectives, according to one of the police reports.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
24 July 2025
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“Lazy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lazy. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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