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How to use lazy in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb, noun

Lazy means unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion. Example: “Get out of bed, you lazy lout!”

Examples of lazy by meaning

adjectiveUnwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.

  • Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
  • "I'm too lazy," he said.1913, L. Frank Baum, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., published c. 1920, page 308

adjectiveCausing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.

  • I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.

adjectiveShowing a lack of effort or care.

  • Tarzan wondered in a lazy sort of way whom she might be, and what relations one so lovely could have with the surly, bearded Russian.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 17

adjectiveSluggish; slow-moving.

  • We strolled along beside a lazy stream.

adjectiveDroopy.

  • a lazy-eared rabbit

adjectiveTurned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.

  • There was probably more cattle bearing the Lazy S brand marketed than those of any other ranch in the world.2010, The Trail Drivers of Texas
  • The Zuliagas branded a Lazy B.2002, American Cowboy, volume 9, number 3, page 60

adjectiveEmploying lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.

  • a lazy algorithm

verbTo laze, act in a lazy manner.

  • That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.1908, O. Henry, “The Memento”, in The Voice of the City, New York: McClure, page 239

More sentences with lazy

  • After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.From the entry scale
  • I was sitting on the sofa for a long time, feeling too lazy to move.From the entry move
  • That guy's a slow and lazy player, but he's got excellent finishing.From the entry finishing
  • Programming languages with lazy evaluation support corecursion so that the programmer can refer to infinite objects.From the entry corecursion
  • If you want to stay in his good books, just don't be lazy or dishonest.From the entry good books
  • I can't get behind the idea that all homeless people are just too lazy to work.From the entry get behind
  • Paddy was a dolehead who was too lazy to ever work a day in his life.From the entry dolehead
  • The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.From the entry fox
  • A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.From the entry dead
  • Get your lazy behind out of bed!From the entry behind
  • The teacher knew how to deal with these lazy students.From the entry deal with
  • The lazy sailors left the deck unscrubbed.From the entry unscrubbed
  • There are unflappable, lazy Holsteiners and sensitive, spooky Holsteiners.From the entry Holsteiner
  • The monument is just Poseidon being lazy, as per, and not keeping his city in order.2024 August 29, Charlie Covell, 23:06 from the start, in Georgi Banks-Davies, director, Kaos, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Prometheus…. From the entry as per
  • We’re too busy, too lazy, too preoccupied to lose ourselves in books.2023 June 21, A. O. Scott, “Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry commodify
  • It's lazy, it's specious, it's perfunctory, and it's utterly without depth.2023, Peter Turchi, (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before, page 107. From the entry antisemantic
  • And no one in a lazy girl job is actually lazy”2023 August 1, Angela Yang, quoting Gabrielle Judge, “‘Lazy girl jobs’ are trending in rally against burnout culture”, in NBC News. From the entry lazy girl job
  • Working a "lazy girl" job doesn't mean Gen Z workers are slacking off.2023 October 18, Paola Peralta, “What the 'lazy girl job' trend says about Gen Z's mental health”, in Employee Benefit News. From the entry lazy girl job
  • When people become weed-heads they become sluggish, lazy, stupid, and unconcerned.2016, Frank Ocean, “Be Yourself”, in Blonde. From the entry unconcerned
  • This paper extends lazy basic block versioning to propagate type information interprocedurally, across function call boundaries.2015, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, Marc Feeley, “Interprocedural Type Specialization of JavaScript Programs Without Type Analysis”, in arXiv. From the entry interprocedurally
  • Méndez: “Ama sua, ama llulla, ama quella,” which translates as, “Don’t steal, don’t lie, don’t be lazy.”2013 December 31, William Neuman, “Headbanging in Bolivia to the Flutes of Yore”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry quena
  • But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog . . .2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry golden age
  • The 36′′ corner lazy Susan cabinet makes excellent use of corner spaces in a kitchen.2011 June 22, Danny Proulx, Simply Built Cabinets, Penguin, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry lazy susan
  • Ali is irreverent, lazy and raspingly sardonic, and his obvious fictional predecessor is Joseph Heller ’s Yossarian.2008 June 15, Robert Macfarlane, “The Late Dictator”, in New York Times. From the entry raspingly
  • I am going to call it: I am a lazy motherfricker who doesn't want to work club.2006 09, Jonathan G. Rundy, SHEER GENIUS (Examining the Universe), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry motherfricker
  • The class will also suss out pretty quickly that you're being lazy.2004, Sue Cowley, Sue Cowley's A-Z of Teaching, page 117. From the entry worksheet
  • A lazy blueness, from a whole nother age, is spread all above me.2004, Margo Lanagan, “Rite of Spring”, in Black Juice, London: Gollancz, published 2007, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry a whole nother
  • With a little marketing, these could easily replace barcaloungers and lazy boys.2004, Bradley G. Richardson, Daddy Smarts: A Guide for Rookie Fathers. From the entry barcalounger
  • I am sick and tired of lazy thinkers using the defense of “legislated morality.”2003, Steven Wunderink, Minding Your Spiritual Business: Life Stories with Life Sense, page 139. From the entry grind
  • She was a little lazy about going anywhere on foot and she was untannable.2001, Nathalie Ponze, Prunella in the Land of Beavers, page 89. From the entry untannable

Meaning of lazy

  1. adjective Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
  2. adjective Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
  3. adjective Showing a lack of effort or care.

Full definition of lazy

Questions about lazy in a sentence

How do you use lazy in a sentence?
Lazy is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “Get out of bed, you lazy lout!”
What is a short sentence with lazy?
“a lazy algorithm”
What does lazy mean?
Lazy means unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lazy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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