as in inertia
an inclination not to do work or engage in activities
although she often talks about ambitious household projects, nothing even gets started because of her chronic laziness
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Recent Examples of laziness
Friends and family suspect drugs, laziness or bad moral character.
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Kat McGowan, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025
Here are some tips to fight back against the flawed belief that rest is just laziness in disguise, during the holidays and beyond.
—Stacy Shaw, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2025
The six-year gap wasn’t laziness or pickiness.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Dec. 2025
Here are some tips to fight back against the flawed belief that rest is just laziness in disguise, during the holidays and beyond.
—Stacy Shaw, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
Stillness is sloth and sloth is laziness and laziness is losing the herd.
—Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
The government could also entice households to save less and spend more by building out a more comprehensive social safety net, but Xi has expressed fear that extensive welfare programs promote laziness.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
Fraud is a symptom of bubbles, but so is laziness.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
In the end, though, Black Phone 2’s relationship to Nightmare on Elm Street feels less like plagiarism than narrative laziness — but if the Grabber returns in a few years to fight Jason Voorhees, Freddy might want to consult a lawyer.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laziness
inertia
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Funny, though, that this movie could be viewed as the flip side of Causeway, a quiet drama that’s also about a woman at a crossroads who snaps out of her inertia thanks to meeting a kindly stranger.—
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Where the first half of the 1600 conversation explored how young men are drifting toward the right through grievance, alienation and algorithmic content, this installment challenges Democrats to confront their own inertia.—
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“Laziness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laziness. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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