Usage examples of "paresseux" in French with translation to English

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C'est un étudiant paresseux. He is a lazy student.
Ces bons à rien de paresseux ont été licenciés. Those good-for-nothing layabouts were sacked.
Va à l'école ! Paresseux. Go to school! You lazy bastard.
Il n'est jamais paresseux. He is never lazy.
C'est un type paresseux. He is a lazy fellow.
Il tend à être paresseux. He is inclined to be lazy.
Tous les travailleurs paresseux doivent être renvoyés. All the workers who are lazy must be fired.
Son problème c'est qu'il est paresseux. The trouble with him is that he is lazy.
Tout le monde a tendance à être paresseux. Everybody tends to be lazy.
Il regretta d'avoir été paresseux le trimestre dernier. He regretted having been lazy in the former term.
Je ne peux pas l'empêcher d'être paresseux. I cannot help his being lazy.
Tom n'est pas paresseux. En fait, il travaille dur. Tom is not a lazy boy. As a matter of fact, he works hard.
Tom n'est pas du tout stupide. Il est seulement paresseux. Tom is by no means unintelligent. He is just lazy.
Il n'est pas un étudiant aussi paresseux que vous le pensez. He is not as lazy a student as you think.
C'est parce que tu es paresseux que tu ne peux pas écrire ton rapport. It is because you are lazy that you cannot write your report.
Non pas qu'il ne le pourrait pas, mais c'est un homme trop paresseux. Not that he couldn't, but he's too lazy one man.
Mon père pensait que celui qui ne pouvait gagner sa vie au Japon était un paresseux. My father believed that anyone who could not make a living in Japan was lazy.
Marie est la plus paresseuse de ses camarades de classe. Mary's the laziest of her schoolmates.
Tu es la personne la plus paresseuse que je connaisse. You're the laziest person I know.
Elle est la personne la plus paresseuse que je connaisse. She's the laziest person I know.
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