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LAZY

lazy - a 
moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace" 

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Synonyms

idle, indolent, shiftless, slothful

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Examples

“It was a lazy day, more like the beginning of summer than the end.”

“Katie wasn't lazy, but she didn't like getting dirt under her fingernails.”

“For her, the lazy days of summer hadn't changed much since she was a child.”

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Etymology

1540s, laysy, of persons, "averse to labor, action, or effort," a word of unknown origin. In 19c. thought to be from lay (v.) as tipsy from tip. Skeat is responsible for the prevailing modern view that it probably comes from Low German, from a source such as Middle Low German laisch "weak, feeble, tired," modern Low German läösig, early modern Dutch leuzig, all of which may go back to the PIE root *(s)leg- "slack." According to Weekley, the -z- sound disqualifies a connection with French lassé "tired" or German lassig "lazy, weary, tired." A supposed dialectal meaning "naught, bad," if it is the original sense, may tie the word to Old Norse lasenn "dilapidated," lasmøyrr "decrepit, fragile," root of Icelandic las-furða "ailing," las-leiki "ailment."

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