lazybones

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And under her name the lazybones was warming himself It is true that the interests of all are interwoven; but, even without any prolonged reckoning, the conscience of each man will say on whose side lies labor, and on whose idleness.

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  • COFFEE POT is it's exactly 0.1 miles from my front door, so it's a really sweet option on those days when I'm feeling like a big lazybones. —  NOGOODFORME.COM
  • The opposite is true too: Once word gets out, or the impression is given, you're a lazybones, you can rise at dawn and work like John Henry every day for the rest of your life, and it won't matter. —  The Corner
  • Working protects the poorer sectors of the population who people like to describe as "lazybones." —  Chicago Indymedia
  • But you're a lazybones, you know. —  Cricket at the Seashore
  • Among other things they chatted about was this--which of them all was the boldest Says the lazybones (_lezhaka I'm not afraid of anything Well then," say the spinners, "if you're not afraid, go past the graveyard to the church, take down the holy picture from the door, and bring it here Good, I'll bring it; only each of you must spin me a distaff-ful That was just her sort of notion: to do nothing herself, but to get others to do it for her. —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
 

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/ˈleɪzɪboʊnz/
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