lazy

One former cyber agent said FBI staff were furious about the "sloppy and lazy security failures" that allegedly enabled the breach.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

But when the government’s arguments are this lazy, it is functionally impossible for Saylor to not at least implicitly acknowledge just how bad the idea is.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

There’s days where I’m too lazy to go swimming and there are days where I’m like, “I don’t want to go to the gym.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

If a claim is substantiated, the plagiarist is seen as sloppy or lazy at best, and fundamentally dishonest at worst.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

“I hope I shall have done something to be proud of by that time, but I’m such a lazy dog, I’m afraid I shall dawdle, Jo.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

We label those who outsource their work to AI as lazier and less moral, and we think they value their work less than those who don’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

A 2025 Duke University study found that professionals believed that colleagues would consider them lazier and less competent if they used A.I., making them unlikely to disclose its use.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025

Use her ajvar recipe without adjustment, or opt for my lazier route, and stash containers of lutenitsa in the freezer.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

The other excuses he's been puking up are even lazier.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023

The sound of the waves was even lazier, more drawn out than at noon.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

“Everybody’s used to seeing grizzlies on TV catching salmon out of the air at the top of some waterfall, but black bears are one of the laziest animals on the planet,” he explains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2025

While charging a $1 annual fee may discourage the laziest bot-makers, it surely won’t prevent anyone with a real incentive—financial, political, or otherwise—to manipulate the platform for their own personal gain.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2023

If he loses, they say he overthinks, the laziest word ever to be used about Guardiola's work.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2023

Take it from the laziest cook: Life is hard, I do not seek out other difficult things.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2023

“Next to Mom, you’re the laziest Shainmark,” he tells our dog.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

The New York Stock Exchange tape lazied along: about 120,000 shares an hour, 610,000 shares for the full session.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he lazied with geishas, saki, talk and chess.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied.

From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain

I never lazied around so or frittered up so much time in my life; and I'm enjoying every second of my freedom, too.

From The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story by Arthur William Brown

I was in the merriest humour, and lazied about the whole afternoon through the most frequented streets and looked at the people.

From Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Hot summer weekends he is apt to be lazying beside Marian Anderson's Connecticut swimming pool.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oddly, there was always some aircraft lazying about overhead by the time they were out of the gate.

From The Invaders by Murray Leinster

Therefore there is plenty of room for reposeful lazying and lounging, and for exercise too, for such as like that kind of work.

From Following the Equator, Part 2 by Mark Twain

That was it, the whole field, unkept, idle, lazying, was thoughtless of the future.

From Stubble by George Looms

"A nice big dog lazying round here would sort of complete it."

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall