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The state or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.

a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor.

The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley.

(in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

ceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. As there is a great truth wrapped up in "diligence," what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word "indolence"! Thi…

abitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.

Want of exertion; want of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness.

Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. [They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth. Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. Franklin.

To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.] Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. Feltham.