adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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People who left school unable to read were often dismissed as lazy .
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The homeless and those on welfare are despised as lazy or dishonest.
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Unemployed people are described as lazy , scroungers, living off the tax payer, etc.
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Always so polite with the Archbishop, a fawning, cloying, false man. As lazy as any Negro.
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Many welfare opponents vilify recipients as lazy and immoral cheats and con artists.
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They are as lazy ill breaking down as they, are ill building tip.
too
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This happened in Wimbledon, too . people were simply too lazy to try and remember.
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Emma Quashie reproached him from back in the doorway where she had gone, too lazy to chase the boy.
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I am too lazy to be shopping around for the best rate every three years.
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They only ran the tractors during the daytime-they were too lazy to run them at night.
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The purplish thing drifted on to the beach, but I felt too lazy to walk over and examine it.
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What would happen if we all parked where we pleased just because we were too lazy to park properly?
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And we're too lazy to do any gardening.
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No, he is too lazy .
■ NOUN
days
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Or you can simply opt out and discover some of the best ways to spend lazy days .
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Long lazy days , trips to the beach and James Taylor at the local amphitheater.
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Ahhh ... those lazy days of spooning mayonnaise.
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The beach is all of fifty metres away across the road and is great for lazy days sunbathing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lucky/lazy/cheeky etc beggar
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I've been stood out there ages! - Anyway, why aren't you dressed yet, you lazy beggar ?
talk about lazy/cheap/hungry etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lazy afternoon
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a lazy river
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Get up, you lazy thing! It's nearly lunchtime.
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He's too lazy to cook himself dinner.
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Marian didn't do well at school. She was intelligent, but very lazy .
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The lazy days of summer are finally here.
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We spent a lazy afternoon at the beach.