The only difference is, that thelaziness of the one is desponding, and the laziness of the other sanguine; yet both can give it a good name, and call it happiness.
Laziness is probably induced by the ease with which they obtain food.
Laziness and filth follow us as we proceed southward in our observations; among the Mexicans, the poorer classes especially are filthy in their persons, and have a disgusting appearance, which increases with the infirmities of age.
The bestial laziness of the Central Californian prevents him from following the chase to any extent, or from even inventing efficient game-traps.
It was also the duty of the town-criers to inflict the punishment imposed on all who from laziness or other neglect failed to perform their share of work.
But except in cases of unusual laziness or eccentric ambition, most men would elect to do a full day's work for a full day's pay.
Unfortunately, in this case laziness is reinforced by love of power, which leads energetic officials to create the systems which lazy officials like to administer.
You must not think, because I speak so much of the comfortableness of the life of this typical French provincial family, that there was the least suspicion of laziness about them.
Mr. Hale, you say that my conception of life looks like laziness to you.
D'ye think mouths can be filled, and hunger satisfied, by laziness and sleep!
I have burnt a smooty path, from wanton laziness to pick my way across a tangled bottom.
More fully stated it is the problem of the negatively as the enemy of the positively good; of the cultivation of brain lazinessby "thoughts-made-easy" reading.
They say nothin' will cure laziness in a man, but a second wife 'll shake it up awfully.
I was in hopes now that you'd take me by the back o' the neck and try to shake some o' this laziness out o' me.
Amongst the causes of that laziness there was one which Beyle did not understand, and which constituted the main difference between the two men.
And the lazinesswas anything but absolute idleness.
He praised Dryden for rhyming his plays, and said--as Pope and Voltaire used also to say--that it was nothing but laziness that prevented our tragic poets from writing in rhyme like those of France.
So an end had soon been put to laziness and boredom in the second class.
In order that a poem of that sort may come into existence from time to time--who would believe how much idleness and boredom and peevish laziness is necessary?
The supposed modifications attributed to the laziness or incompetence of British craftsmen are, however, so astonishing and so ably executed that I am convinced the present theory of feeble imitation is ill-founded.
All through life carelessness and laziness bring worry, and he is a wise person who, as early as he discovers these vices in himself, seeks to correct or, better still, eliminate them.
Carelessness and laziness are both great causes of worry.
But I cheated my laziness capitally, as you shall hear.
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never; for "a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
Grant, O Lord, that I may now love Thee as once I loved sin, and that I may labor for Thee without laziness as once I labored for Satan the deceiver.
I alone have been weighed down by sinful laziness and submitted to evil deeds.
In the abundance of Thy kindness and long patience, Thou hast not been angry with me for my laziness and sinfulness, nor hast Thou destroyed me in my lawlessness.
For such a man laziness or indifference in business seems anomalous, while industry and enthusiasm are as natural as the air he breathes and as inexhaustible as the air itself.
With most of us the degree of our laziness or our industry depends partly upon our affinity for the work, but chiefly upon the motives which stimulate us.
A proverb on the laziness and lodgings of the servants: "The worse their sty--the longer they lie.
It only comes to be added on account of the laziness of the speculating individual.
For along with the new material the old point of view and treatment of it creeps into the mind, all the more so as laziness and apathy counsel us to accept what has already been thought, and allow it to pass for truth.
For not so much to his own strength as to your laziness does he owe his present aggrandizement.
The fashion now so prevalent of pegging hawks out on the lawn by themselves seems to me, if the truth is to be told, to have originated in the laziness of the falconer or his subordinates.
Incapacity or laziness on the part of a man or a dog provokes the contempt and disgust of a trained hawk, who is often a much better critic in such matters than the ignorant may suppose.
The proof of her laziness is that she didn't do much about learning English, in spite I gave her the records, and we gave her one of our little phonographs.
I was not in a condition to treat visitors who goaded at my laziness with any courage; tact was the only thing possible.
From the midst of my laziness here the news I get from Cambridge makes it seem like a little seething Florence of the XVth Century.
These Indians are particularly exasperating by their laziness and stolidity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laziness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
