Infinitive complement

• descibe: So there you have it __________________ " Obsessed is a word used by the lazy to descibe the dedicated "

• bother: P Thinking about it, the cat is much too lazy to bother with this sort of thing.

• walk: It was a shame Russ and Chris were too lazy to walk up the hill to take some film.

• write: I'm just too lazy to write much today - my perennial problem.

Modifies a noun

• git: Don't be a lazy git and fire off an email asking us to find it for you without even trying yourself.

• sod: There's nothing wrong with being a lazy sod!

• bastard: I didn't actually read it all, because I am a lazy bastard.

• ass: The simple truth is, I've been a lazy ass!

• bugger: At the moment on a gap year as I messed up my A ' Levels by being a lazy bugger.

• bum: I finally got tired of the open windows in Opera so I got off my lazy bum and posted them.

Modifying Another Word

• intellectually: He writes ' It goes against the grain for a scientist to be so intellectually lazy.

• too: Or are they just too lazy to actually pull the chain?

• inherently: The real difficulty was probably that I was inherently lazy!

• damn: Pass this list of banks onto Mr Bord at once and tell him to stop being so damn lazy.

• incredibly: Once again, it would seem intellectually incredibly lazy to treat these astonishing facts as merely a happy accident.

• plain: Main changes - NS to Redditch is down to once every half-hour, which is just plain lazy.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: If you are feeling lazy, a local chef can be booked to come to the villa to prepare and cook dinner for you.

• seem: The waitress staff could use a bit of polishing and in some cases seemed lazy.

• become: There are several ways to avoid an eye becoming lazy.

• get: Then Ferguson got rich, he got lazy, he joined New Labor, he forgot about his roots.