But lazy reporters and editors in search of screaming headlines have other options.
Providing endorsements is ideal if you genuinely want to give props, but are too lazy or pressed for time to write a full recommendation.
Meglena Kuneva, the Bulgarian member of the 27-strong European commission, draws a dividing line, not between old and new Europe but between "lazy and zealous Europe".
I'm tempted to say he can be lazy, but I doubt that it is that simple.
It's easy to contend that they grow complacent or lazy, but that's not the key issue, Collins contends.
But summer is a lazy season of vacations and wandering minds.
The bottom line is that Americans are not lazy, but the private sector simply cannot generate sufficient demand to create a job for everyone who wants one.
But Seth Smith hit a lazy fly to left field for the second out.
But traffic, competition and lazy store personnel got to him, and 12 years ago he made a change.
"I would do it more often, but I'm a bit lazy, " says the 56-old Roy.
An American woman reaches for the biggest claw, but with a quick spin of the Lazy Susan I make her settle for second biggest.
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The failure of was due in part to lack of funding but, mostly due to a seemingly lazy wait and see approach from the CE Manufactures.
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In the popular World War II cartoon strip The Sad Sack, the character was a naive, confused, lazy, bumbling private, but happy enough and almost lovable.
But some campaigners argue the law is a "lazy" option for prosecutors and can lead to miscarriages of justice.
Sort of a lazy man's social phone, but we reckon that can be quite a useful thing for the targeted demographic of college students.
These dishes are probably not going to be a regular thing (the Lazy Ox changes its menu daily), but I give Rocher props for going big.
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Sure, millions of songs in your pocket has changed the way you listen to music, but can you figure out what to play on a lazy Sunday afternoon?
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Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) is a feckless oaf with a wide grin, a bong, and four lazy housemates who are too old to be boys but will never, unless fate takes a hand, bother to grow into men.
But the conceit that Indie authors are merely a bunch of lazy hacks unwilling to face rejection ignores the fact that even the biggest proponents of the old publishing system admit that there are many talented published authors nobody has ever heard of.
But a group of retailers and banks are planning to turn this lazy habit to their advantage.
But I am afraid that would be to perpetuate the kind of lazy sentimentalism that has seen so much taxpayer's money wasted over the last decade.
That's a little lazy from Murray, dabbing an attempted drop-shot wide, but he then chases down a lob before punching home a backhand winner.
For comparison, another group of nine volunteers with amblyopia wore similar goggles but had their good eye covered, and watched the whole game through only their lazy eye.
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But in some areas we are, I fear, running the risk of becoming rather lazy and complacent in our thinking.
Mr Schwarzenegger's lazy governorship could come to be seen not as the great missed opportunity, but as the spur for reform.
Far from exposing mediocrity and incompetence, the games have challenged lazy assumptions about what kind of country we are - not just to foreigners but to ourselves.
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