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3 total sentences available.
Just so your idle vagrant, he would work for his living, but no body will hire him; he would work, but he wants clothes; clothes you give him, but then he wants tooles; you supply him with tooles, but the truth is, he hath an infirmity, he is lame in his limbs and sickly; nay, the truth is, he is lame in his will and sick of the lazies: were the will right, these excuses needed not.
Source: wiktionary
A picker beside him wiped his neck. “I sure wish I was in one of them trailers, laying back and letting the lazies git me.”
Source: wiktionary
It’s the biggest and most important muscle you have, but your glutes can get a case of the lazies, forgetting to “activate” or “turn on” sufficiently during everyday tasks or workouts […]
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include idler, loafer, shirker, slacker.
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