单词 | lazy |
释义 | la·zy I. 1. a. < having to deal with a lazy slut, might feel strongly tempted to take up the nearest broomstick — G.B.Shaw > < gifted but lazy artist > b. < lazy summer day > < lazy weather > < lazy chair > c. < spent a lazy weekend at home > < lazy expedient > 2. < lazy river > < spoke with a lazy articulation > 3. < lazy corn > < a rabbit with lazy ears > < habitually lazy posture > 4. of a letter or number < lazy E livestock brand > < lazy 2 on a bank note > — see brand illustration Synonyms: < we were too lazy … We passed our indolent days leaving everything to somebody else — H.G.Wells > < the lion is by nature so essentially lazy that he will never do more hunting than he feels to be necessary — James Stevenson-Hamilton > < even when the heat is not extreme, a sudden rise may make us uncomfortable and lazy, as often occurs in the spring — Ellsworth Huntington > indolent implies a constitutional love of ease and inactivity or dislike of purposeful activity < an indolent son sleeping away his life > < he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards — Jane Austen > < life is more leisured without being essentially indolent — American Guide Series: Virginia > slothful suggests temperamental inactivity or slowness when action or speed is called for < he would use political means to jog a slothful conscience and marshal its forces — V.L.Parrington > < waiting for the hostler's slothful boy to bring out the horses — American Guide Series: Virginia > faineant, now infrequent, implies a disposition to do nothing even under urgency < in a typical statement of the faineant judicial philosophy he sometimes espouses, [he] refused to put judgment on so slender a foundation — E.V.Rostov > < to avoid all issues by electing a faineant mayor and city council > II. |
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