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- apathy
- inertia
- lethargy
- negligence
- sloth
- weariness
- dilatoriness
- dormancy
- dreaminess
- drowsiness
- dullness
- faineance
- heaviness
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertness
- laxness
- leisureliness
- listlessness
- neglectfulness
- passivity
- remissness
- slackness
- sleepiness
- slothfulness
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- tardiness
- torpidness
- do-nothingness
- faineancy
- lackadaisicalness
- languidness
- languorousness
- leadenness
- otioseness
- otiosity
- supineness
- torpescence
On this page you’ll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to laziness, such as: apathy, inertia, lethargy, negligence, sloth, and weariness.
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Spice blends have never just been for “lazy” cooks, but a new generation is showing how crucial they are to any kitchen During the home-cooking renaissance of the early aughts, “from scratch” was the bar at which every kitchen endeavor was set.
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Instead of criticizing myself for being lazy and giving into my cravings, I was more proactive about fueling throughout the day to keep my blood sugar stable and switched up harder workouts for yoga, swimming, or a rest day during this phase.
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I’m not doing this in the middle of the afternoon because I was too lazy to do it in the morning, but because I am committed to increasing my blood plasma so I can dominate the competition at this year’s Turkey Trot.
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They learn the lesson that happy people are the busy people, and they return home cured of their discontent and laziness.
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WORDS RELATED TO LAZINESS
- disinclination
- idleness
- laziness
- procrastination
- apathy
- deadness
- drowsiness
- dullness
- idleness
- immobility
- immobilization
- inactivity
- indolence
- languor
- lassitude
- laziness
- lethargy
- listlessness
- oscitancy
- paralysis
- passivity
- sloth
- sluggishness
- stillness
- stupor
- torpidity
- torpor
- unresponsiveness
- apathy
- dullness
- fatigue
- idleness
- inaction
- inactivity
- laziness
- listlessness
- sluggishness
- tiredness
- torpor
- weakness
- apathy
- dullness
- exhaustion
- fatigue
- idleness
- inaction
- inactivity
- languor
- laziness
- listlessness
- sleepiness
- sluggishness
- tiredness
- torpor
- weakness
- weariness
- disinterest
- inactivity
- indifference
- languor
- laziness
- lethargy
- passivity
- drowsiness
- fatigue
- laziness
- lethargy
- somnolence
- tiredness
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indolence, lazinessnoun
inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
Synonyms:
acedia, laziness, sloth, indolence -
lazinessnoun
relaxed and easy activity
«the laziness of the day helped her to relax»
Synonyms:
acedia, sloth, indolence -
sloth, laziness, acedianoun
apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Synonyms:
tree sloth, slothfulness, laziness, sloth, acedia, indolence
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Anne Frank:
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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Benjamin Franklin:
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
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Francisco Rivas Lara:
Private companies don’t have a country or a heart, and money has no homeland, the problem is people confused socialism with laziness, villainy and theft.
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Samuel Johnson:
Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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CLIFFORD VILLALON:
There is nothing wrong about laziness. Take time to relax. Laziness is only despising if it becomes a habit.
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| laziness (Noun) — | Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work |
| laziness (Noun) — | Relaxed and easy activity 1 example |
| 1. ex. «the laziness of the day helped her to relax» | |
| laziness (Noun) — | Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
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acedia, apathy, dawdling, decrease, idleness, en.synonym.one, inactivity, indolence, inertia, languor, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, passivity, relaxation, slack, sloth, slowing.
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1. laziness
noun. [‘ˈleɪziːnəs’] apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
Synonyms
- deadly sin
- mortal sin
- acedia
Antonyms
- activity
- action
- worth
- stand
Etymology
- -ness (English)
- lazy (English)
Rhymes with Laziness
- craziness
Sentences with laziness
1. Noun, singular or mass
If you take on work that is rightfully hers, you will only reinforce her laziness.
Quotes about laziness
1. My ambition is handicapped by laziness
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
2. Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
— Jules Renard
3. Will rolled up his sleeves. «We’ll probably have to knock down the door—«»Or,»said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, «not.»The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. «Now, that’s simply laziness,»said Will.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
2. laziness
noun. [‘ˈleɪziːnəs’] relaxed and easy activity.
Synonyms
- rest
- ease
- relaxation
Antonyms
- discomposure
- be active
- change
- wake
Etymology
- -ness (English)
- lazy (English)
3. laziness
noun. [‘ˈleɪziːnəs’] inactivity resulting from a dislike of work.
Synonyms
- inertia
- indolence
- inactiveness
- shiftlessness
- idleness
- inactivity
Antonyms
- lie
- difficult
- difficulty
- effortfulness
Etymology
- -ness (English)
- lazy (English)
Предложения со словом «laziness»
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In fact, many of the, shall we say, unpleasant characteristics that we chalk up to being a teenager — moodiness, irritability, laziness , depression — could be a product of chronic sleep deprivation. |
На самом деле, многие из неприятных черт, которые мы приписываем подросткам, а именно мрачность, раздражительность, лень и депрессивность, могут быть результатом хронической нехватки сна. |
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It helps to understand and respect other people’s work, and also to overcome laziness . |
Это помогает понять и уважать труд других людей, а также преодолевать лень. |
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Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness . |
Теперь медицина сделала большие успехи, но тогда все это сваливали на лень. |
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Don’t get mad at me for exposing your laziness . |
Не злитесь на меня за то, что я разоблачила вашу лень. |
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Laziness and the desire not to get involved in another bizarre case warred with outrage. |
Лень и нежелание ввязываться в очередную странную историю сражались с кипящим во мне гневом. |
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Or maybe it’s just terminal laziness . |
Или, возможно, это просто окончательная лень. |
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Weaknesses in any or all of these areas create incentives for corruption, laziness , and incompetence. |
Слабости в одной или всех этих областях создают стимулы для коррупции, лени и некомпетентности. |
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Instead of showing solidarity, they moralize, as though all of the problems in Mediterranean Europe were the result of native laziness or its citizens’ corrupt nature. |
Вместо того чтобы проявить солидарность они морализируют, что все проблемы в европейской части Средиземноморья были результатом врожденной лени или испорченности их граждан. |
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No laziness , Thibauld; thou art relaxing; go on, go on, then, art thou rusted, thou sluggard? |
Не ленись, Тибо! Ты отстаешь. Да ну же! Ты заржавел, бездельник, что ли? |
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It is not laziness , but industry that has given me this, this languid air. |
Это не от лени, это от усердия у меня такой… такой томный вид. |
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And this fine contour from your ear to your chin is no longer so finely drawn… the result of too much comfort and laziness . |
И эта прелестная линия от уха до подбородка стала расплывчатой. От самодовольства и лени. |
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There was too much singing, and she didn’t see how even the Elect could survive for very long the celestial laziness which was promised. |
Слишком много там пения, и непонятно, как Избранные — при всей их праведности — могут долго выдерживать райское обетованное безделье. |
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Yes; laziness and whiskers was what done the trick. |
Да, лень и борода — вот в чем зарыта собака. |
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One says laziness ; one says remorse; one says booze. |
Один говорит: лень, другой говорит: угрызения совести, третий говорит: пьянство. |
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Indifference, incapacity-! won’t admit; surely it’s not simply laziness ? |
Равнодушия, неуменья я не допускаю; неужели просто лень? |
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But for disobedience, for laziness , for notions, for lovers on the side, I will punish cruelly and, like nasty weeds, will throw out- on the street, or still worse. |
Но за непослушание, за леность, за фантазии, за любовников на стороне я буду жестоко наказывать и, как гадкую сорную траву, выброшу вон на улицу или еще хуже. |
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I had been nine weeks in bed, and the muscles had gone lax and the laziness of recovery had set in. |
Больше двух месяцев я лежал не вставая, мышцы у меня потеряли упругость, и по мере того как болезнь отступала, мною завладевала лень. |
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That remains of all the laziness , sloth and failure. |
При всей лени, никчемности и слюнтяйстве. |
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By a mixacle of laziness and stupidity of the fascists which they will remedy in time. |
Сделали это чудо лень и глупость фашистов, но все это только до поры до времени. |
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His friends had been urging him to do this for years, but his laziness made it impossible for him to take the necessary steps. |
Друзья поэта настаивали на этом уже много лет, но лень мешала ему предпринять необходимые шаги. |
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He reproached Philip for laziness , asked him when he was going to start work, and finally began telling everyone he met that Philip was going to paint him. |
Он журил Филипа за лень, допытывался, когда же он начнет работать, а потом стал рассказывать всем и каждому, что Филип собирается его рисовать. |
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Himmelstoss maintained that it was sheer laziness and invented a method worthy of himself for curing Tjaden. |
Химмельштос безапелляционно заявил, что это просто лень, и нашел прекрасное, вполне достойное своего изобретателя средство, как исцелить Тьядена. |
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Unfortunately it accomplished nothing because the first assumption was wrong: it was not laziness in either of them. |
К сожалению, из нее ничего не вышло, так как предпосылка оказалась все же неправильной: в обоих случаях дело объяснялось вовсе не ленью. |
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‘There’s nothing the matter but laziness ; is there, Earnshaw?’ he said. ‘My cousin fancies you are an idiot. |
Ничего тут нет, только леность. Правда, Эрншо? — сказал он. — Моя двоюродная сестра подумала, что ты кретин. |
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But really that would have served no great purpose, and I let it go-out of laziness as much as anything else. |
Но в сущности, это было бесполезно. И я от этого отказался — из лености. |
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Be-er! he began to call loudly. We’ve grown wild, coarse; have become mired in foul speech, drunkenness, laziness and other vices. |
Пива — а! — закричал он громко. — Мы одичали, огрубели, погрязли в сквернословии, пьянстве, лености и других пороках. |
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By the way, I always like better brooding over my works and dreaming how they should be written than actually writing them. And this really is not from laziness . |
Кстати: мне всегда приятнее было обдумывать мои сочинения и мечтать, как они у меня напишутся, чем в самом деле писать их, и, право, это было не от лености. |
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And Rodrick is the king of laziness . |
И Rodrick — король лености. |
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There’s also a kind of indolence, a kind of laziness … |
А также некоторая праздность, некоторая леность… |
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What’s the laziness level? |
—Каков уровень ленивости? |
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It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness . |
Оно отсекает корни у слабости, трусливости и лени. |
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For all of their laziness and lack of motivation, Mexicans are a lovely people. |
Из — за их лени и отсутствие мотивации мексиканцы такие прекрасные люди. |
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And he believes… that if he takes away the food and the water, then he also… takes away the nourishment for the laziness ! |
И он верит… что если отберёт пищу и воду, то также… отберёт подпитку для лени! |
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I will not brook insolence or laziness . |
Я не потерплю неповиновения и лени. |
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Nothing to stop you but laziness and terrorism. |
Ничего не остановит нас, кроме лени и терроризма. |
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I’m mostly faithful out of laziness . |
Знаешь, я не изменяю, скорее, из лени. |
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That’s laziness , or lack of ambition. |
Это из — за лени либо отсутствия амбиций. |
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Summertime was insect bites, melons, laziness . |
Лето — пора для мазей от насекомых, пора для праздности и лени. |
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Laziness is a mask as gravity is, and that again is laziness . |
Праздность столь же хорошая маска, как и важность, которая сродни праздности. |
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Money doesn’t have to mean laziness , does it? |
Деньги не всегда означают безделье. |
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His wife led him completely, which, by the way, very well suited his natural laziness . |
Жена его им управляла, что согласовалось с его беспечностию. |
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He has ideals — based, really, on a deep instinct of laziness . |
Его идеи основаны на глубоко укоренившемся инстинкте благополучия. |
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300 years of peace and harmony broken by a colossal Awesome and ridiculously stupid laziness ! |
300 лет мира и гармонии испорчены одним колоссально, невероятно потрясающе глупым ленивцем! |
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White Beard doesn’t tolerate laziness . |
Белая Борода не выносит лентяев. |
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Then he, from indolence, from laziness , went and took, hanging on its nail in my laboratory, the key of the Capharnaum. |
И вот он, лентяй, разгильдяй, снимает с гвоздя в моей лаборатории ключ от склада! |
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It was as if her laziness was started by a kind of smothering caused by the dirty clothes which poisoned the air in the shop. |
Возможно, что лень впервые овладела ею именно здесь, среди зловонных и едких испарений запущенного грязного белья. |
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There were days of mistakes and laziness and infighting. |
Были дни ошибок и лени, и споров. |
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Taking the height to observe a city, also see the trees rivers, meadows … But no, you hang a tiny dot, laziness and cowardice. |
Если, полететь на воздушном шаре, и посмотреть на город свысока, то, можно увидеть деревья, реки и луга, но нет, вы сосредоточены только на одном крошечном пятне. |
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However, here was the time, the peace, the laziness of idle physical well-being; she could lie on the sand andtry. |
И все же вот он есть, досуг, покой, праздность, ощущение здоровья и чисто физического благополучия — можно лежать на песке и попробовать собраться с мыслями. |
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He was beat and cowed into laziness and submission. |
Выбитый из седла и усмиренный, он стал лентяем и совершенным тюфяком. |
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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. |
Теперь, когда она ушла на покой, я, помечтав часок — другой, тоже, пожалуй, соберусь с духом и пойду спать, невзирая на мучительную тяжесть в голове и во всем теле. |
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It was not laziness if he was a rich man. |
Раз он богат, значит, не ленив. |
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The report is full of sophistry and various instances of tautological thinking and is generally plagued by the kind of laziness and intellectual vanity which is native to the profiler profession. |
Отчет исполнен пустословия бесконечного пережевывания одних и тех же идей и тяжело поражен ленью и интеллектуальным тщеславием, что, в общем — то, естественно для профайлеров. |
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Which is the most universal human characteristic… fear or laziness ? |
Какое самое всеобъемлющее свойство человека — страх или лень? |
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Human laziness and distraction benefited us in the initial stage of our plan. |
Человеческие лень и рассеянность на начальном этапе плана шли нам на пользу. |
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Laziness is next to slothfulness, Ben. |
Лень порождает тунеядство, Бен. |
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In fact, it implies the opposite… laziness , slovenliness. |
Но намекает на противоположность лень, неряшливость. |
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You see, I chalk it up to laziness . |
Видите ли, я считаю, что виновата лень. |
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His laziness cause him to ignore the woman suffering. |
Ему лень обратить внимание на страдание женщины. |
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Laziness, mostly. |
Главным образом лень. |
Phrases with Laziness
How Laziness often is described
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sheer laziness
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extreme laziness
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simple laziness
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general laziness
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pure laziness
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apparent laziness
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initial laziness
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moral laziness
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intellectual laziness
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plain laziness
Laziness is the first word in phrase
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laziness issues
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laziness dislike
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laziness begets
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laziness contest
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laziness mask
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laziness factor
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laziness personified
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laziness recycling
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laziness either
Laziness is the last word in phrase
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laborious laziness
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developer laziness
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programmer laziness
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scriptwriter laziness
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lord laziness
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western laziness
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memory laziness
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technology laziness
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trademark laziness
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thy laziness
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Synonyms for laziness
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Synonyms for laziness
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Synonyms for laziness
inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
relaxed and easy activity
apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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