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Definition of Lazy

Lazy

  1. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
  2. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
  3. Wicked; vicious.

Lazy Quotations

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager
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Lazy Translations

lazy in Afrikaans is lui
lazy in Danish is doven
lazy in Dutch is lui
lazy in Italian is ozioso, pigro
lazy in Latin is piger pigra pigrum, ignavus, desidiosus
lazy in Norwegian is lat, doven
lazy in Swedish is lat

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