bone-lazy
- adjective
- /boʊn ˈleɪzi/
- Offensive
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haragán (ofensivo, coloquial)
- He is so bone-lazy that he refuses to get off the couch even to eat dinner.
Examples
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Her bone-lazy attitude makes it hard for her to keep a job.
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After a long weekend, he felt bone-lazy and didn't want to leave the house.
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Because you are bone lazy to start with and too weak for a day's work on account of drink!
Fiction book (1990) -
She's getting bone lazy, that girl.
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They're bone lazy, those wretched natives.
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You are, by your dress and by your manner, members of a bone-lazy class of servile ninnyhammers whose slavish allegiance to His Eminence the Cardinal is that of a dog who likes nothing better than to sniff today where he has peed the day before.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
355
1.0
Not willing to work or make an effort
5
8.4
A person who is lazy and unwilling to work or try
5
8.6
Showing little energy or interest and doing things slowly and carelessly
4
7.2
Not willing to work and often inactive
2
8.0
Not wanting to work or try hard
1
9.1
Very lazy and not willing to do any work or help
Unwilling to work or help
Not willing to work or make effort
Tending to be lazy and preferring to sit or rest instead of move
Antonyms
How Lazy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bone-lazy uses bone as a small strong word that means 'completely', just like in bone-dry or bone-tired. So bone-lazy means 'completely lazy', very unwilling to make any effort.