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How to pronounce laziness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms acedia, sloth
Type of deadly sin, mortal sin
Derivation lazy
Type Words
Synonyms indolence
Type of inertia, inactiveness, inactivity
Has types faineance, idleness, shiftlessness
Derivation lazy
Type Words
Type of rest, relaxation, ease, repose
Derivation lazy


the laziness of the day helped her to relax.

Examples of laziness

laziness
We're sorry you have to go to all this trouble to fix the contractor's laziness.
From the sfgate.com
On the negative side, Twitter can promote laziness, banality and superficiality.
From the canberratimes.com.au
This is just intellectual laziness on the part of the person doing the assuming.
From the newscientist.com
Sidibe is too commanding a presence to allow such laziness on the viewer's part.
From the time.com
Not by way of laziness, mind you, but because I believe perfection is paramount.
From the theatlantic.com
The results may have as much to do with the ease of technology as with laziness.
From the nytimes.com
More surprising than the falsehood, though, is the sheer laziness of the charge.
From the us.cnn.com
American business fell in love with intellectual laziness a long, long time ago.
From the forbes.com
This is another example of the sheer laziness and incompetence of our judiciary.
From the nbr.co.nz
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  • Indolence: inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
  • Relaxed and easy activity; "the laziness of the day helped her to relax"
  • Sloth: apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
  • (lazy) moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace"
  • (lazy) faineant: disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
  • Laziness (also called indolence) is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so. It is often used as a pejorative; related terms for a person seen to be lazy include couch potato, slacker, and bludger.
  • u0141azy u00A0( listen) is a town in Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Until 1947 the town was the seat of the Rokitno Szlacheckie municipality. In the years 1975-1998 the town administratively belonged to the Katowice province. According to data from December 31, 2004 the town has 7,242 inhabitants...
  • (Lazy (Deep Purple song)) "Lazy" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple from their 1972 album Machine Head. A live performance of the song can be found on the album Made in Japan, released later the same year.
  • (Lazy (Irving Berlin song)) "Lazy" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1924.