LAZINESS in a Sentence

Learn LAZINESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

90 example sentences for LAZINESS, such as:

1. A lazy youth, a lousy age.
2. Don't encourage his laziness.
3. He felt too lazy to get out of bed.
4. A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
5. The coach often chews out lazy players.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAZINESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
laziness
 n.  inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
 n.  relaxed and easy activity
Classic Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1  If it weren't for laziness, I should have been a perfect angel, myself.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  She was always sure, in such a case, that it was nothing but laziness, or want of energy; and that, if they had had the suffering she had, they would soon know the difference.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  These men were Saxons, and not free by any means from the national love of ease and good living which the Normans stigmatized as laziness and gluttony.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  My Liege," said the Friar, "I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  Their offences at first were those of laziness, carelessness, and impulse, rather than of malignity or ungoverned viciousness.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  With all his laziness and lack of many elements of true manhood, he was at least open-hearted, faithful, and sincere.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
7  And now that she is vanished to her rest, and I have meditated for another hour or two, I shall summon courage to go also, in spite of aching laziness of head and limbs.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  The gravel flew again and across her vision a man on horseback galloped over the green lawn toward the lazy group under the trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Rhett looked lazy and his voice had a silky, almost bored, note.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  Tom and the lazy long-legged twins with their love of gossip and their absurd practical jokes and Boyd who had the grace of a dancing master and the tongue of a wasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  The day was hot and the flies came in the open windows in swarms, fat lazy flies that broke the spirits of the men as pain could not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  But Scarlett saw him drop his eyes before the lazy, penetrating look Rhett gave him, and she was frightened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness.
2  Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
3  Don't encourage his laziness.
4  Don't encourage her laziness by doing things for her.
5  He will never admit to me that he is lazy.
6  A lazy youth, a lousy age.
7  He felt too lazy to get out of bed.
8  He would not demean himself to a lazy worker.
9  The coach admonished the girls for being lazy.
10  The coach often chews out lazy players.
11  No opportunity for the lazy, but diligence can make the most common variable opportunity opportunity.
12  The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
13  He's a classic example of a kid who's clever but lazy.
14  A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
15  The problem is that, au fond , he's very lazy.