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Laziness See also Carelessness. Lechery (See LUST.) Bailey Junior nonchalant, inefficient boardinghouse page. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] goldbricking army private. [Comics: Horn, 105–106] too slothful in life, he repents after death. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy] demon of sloth. [Zoroastrian Myth.: Leach, 175] deliberately jobless and shirks household duties. [Comics: Horn, 82] hotel resident with no occupation. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood] terminally indolent, save when hunger dictates. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87] for whom “work” is a four-letter word. [TV: “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” in Terrace, II, 64–66]
whoever drank thereof, grew immediately “faint and weary.” [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] popular song by Hoagy Carmichael (1933). [Am. Music: Kinkle, II, 268] hapless sharecropper too lazy to keep his large family from starving. [Am. Lit.: Caldwell Tobacco Road] asleep under haystack while livestock roam. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 11] indolent landowner, always in robe and slippers. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov] humor effecting temperament of sluggishness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130] arboreal mammal, always associated with sluggishness. [Zoology: Misc.] an “illiterate loiterer”; slow-moving servant. [Br. Lit.: Two Gentlemen of Verona]
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Lazy people, selfish people--I mean intellectually and socially lazy people. `It just hit me at that moment, that's the reason we're screwing up the bay, so that these lazy people with their big butts can drive their cars. I got rid of the bad people--the drug users, the pushers, the lazy people, the smart alecs--and stayed with the better characters each time we made a cut. |
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