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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Another easy way of conquering laziness is by reducing the time you put into doing things that aren't important.
Here, it's just laziness. Typically, they respond by establishing more rigid standards or expectations that set up the depressed for more failure and shame.
Constant connectivity makes everything easier yet it also seems to create an intellectual laziness because you are sure you will get whatever you ask for immediately so why bother thinking of it when you can just type and 'google' it.
Sometimes it may be due to lack of knowledge or sheer laziness, other times it can just be the convenience of junk food, instead of healthier options.
The laziness and sheer disregard is beyond disgusting and images at the 70 dumping sites paint a truly dire scene.
This haste has led to a certain 'intellectual laziness' as described by Sinan Antoon at a talk titled Baghdad Blues at Lahore Literary Festival.
A combination of cowardice, complacency, laziness and incomprehension lies at the heart of the housing crisis Former Tory planning minister Nick Boles For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'...
Designing and explaining the preprocessing and post processing factors of staffs laziness in governmental organizations
This experience has led her to a new theory of success that says laziness is good.
Similarly, Will & Nill shows that being active and making an effort always pays off, while laziness or passiveness doesn't do us any good.
not an advanced form of publicity; it is just plain laziness. Indeed, it is the kind of laziness that diminishes the industry without raising the sales needle, and therein lies the rub.
RIYADH: The Lancet has placed the Kingdom in the third position in the world, after Malta and Swaziland, in terms of obesity and laziness, triggering warnings from Saudi experts.
Tango Al Afial initially appeared to be a project to recycle laziness and the lazy, but Abdel Fattah went to a broader world enjoying the lazy company, comfortable in a rhythm outside the usual, where he plays with the press.
Some put this down to factors such as immigration, lack of jobs, and, controversially, laziness. But can we really be so judgemental until we understand the circumstances of those who rely on the state?