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Synonyms for laziness
lazi·ness

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  1. indolence, lazinessnoun

    inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

    Synonyms:
    acedia, sloth, indolence

  2. lazinessnoun

    relaxed and easy activity

    "the laziness of the day helped her to relax"

    Synonyms:
    acedia, sloth, indolence

  3. sloth, laziness, acedianoun

    apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

    Synonyms:
    tree sloth, slothfulness, sloth, acedia, indolence

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  1. lazinessnoun

    Synonyms:
    indolence, sloth

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  1. List of paraphrases for "laziness":

    sloth, idleness

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#38659sloth
#41296laziness
#67297idleness
#115916indolence

How to use laziness in a sentence?

  1. Franz Kafka:

    There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

  2. Bahram Baloch:

    If you provide so much relief and comfort to a nation then that nation will gradually suffer into a disease of laziness.

  3. Vincenzo Spadafora:

    Too often the soccer clubs have played down and defended due to laziness, connivance or fear the extremists among their own fans, over the last few months things have started to change but there are still many steps to be taken.

  4. Jesse Eisenberg:

    What the play does discuss is kind of generational strife. My character is third generation American and I think he feels the kind of laziness of assimilation, kunal's character is a new immigrant from Nepal and struggling to make it in an exclusive world of ... privilege that he is not a part of. The play discusses those themes and how my character, in a way, has lost his meaning because he doesn't have to struggle.

  5. Gustav Mahler:

    Tradition is laziness.


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