A phrase describing someone who is lazy [closed]

Possibile expressions are:

Indolent:

  • Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy.

Couch potato:

  • a lazy person whose recreation consists chiefly of watching television and videos

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Bone Idle or Bone Lazy: Mynamite suggested bone idle in a comment, above. His comment deserves to be promoted to an answer. Bone Idle from Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary "Origin -- Early 19th century: expressing idle through to the bone...... See also bone lazy." (Edit corrected typos and made clearer that Mynamite was the first with this term.)


Slothful

Sloth is one of Christianity's Seven Deadly Sins and one of Buddhism's Five Hinderances. Sloth therefore has implications of vice or sin or excess that merely lazy does not.

Dictionary.com: habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness