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  • noun Plural form of laziness.

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Examples

  • France was very nice and relaxing, full of the lazinesses of life.

    Back from France, back on to Canada jinty 2005

  • Not only from the great sins, which, if persisted in, will surely destroy both body and soul in hell: but from the little sins which do so easily beset us; from little bad habits, tempers, lazinesses, weaknesses, ignorances, which hamper and hinder us all every day when we try to do our duty.

    Westminster Sermons with a Preface Charles Kingsley 1847

  • I go into a little detail on what I think are the flaws or weaknesses or lazinesses of some of those people, and then I talk about the people, the bulk of whose work is solid and skillful and pointed.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • _longueus_ and lazinesses of Scott, as a Scot should do.

    Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

  • A truly fine editor becomes steeped in her authors’ style, lives it, breathes it, loves it – and believes in it too fiercely to allow the author to get away with the kind of shortcuts, clichés, and lazinesses to which even the best of us can fall prey from time to time.

    Author! Author! » 2005 » August 2005

  • A truly fine editor becomes steeped in her authors’ style, lives it, breathes it, loves it – and believes in it too fiercely to allow the author to get away with the kind of shortcuts, clichés, and lazinesses to which even the best of us can fall prey from time to time.

    Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The shape of things to come 2005

  • Charter "-- was the excuse for a thousand lazinesses, procrastinations.

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

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