laziness

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Topical Term
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laziness

The three spinning fairies

a tale from the Brothers Grimm
2002
Three unusual fairies help a lazy girl try to attain a life of luxury and ease as the prince's wife.

The scallywags

2006
The Scallywags, a family of lazy, shiftless, mischief-making wolves, annoy all the other animals to the point where they quit getting invited to eat, play, or join in other activities, but when the wolves decide to improve themselves, they go too far in the other direction--until a full moon appears.

Lizard's guest

2003
While dancing around, Lizard accidentally steps on Skunk's toes and then promises to take care of lazy Skunk until his foot is healed.

Lazy Ozzie

1996
Because he thinks that flying is too much work, a lazy little owl tricks the other barnyard animals into helping him get down to the ground, but his mother is not fooled.

The three horrid little pigs

2008
A twist on the classic tale of the three little pigs in which a handy wolf tries to help three lazy pigs build their homes, but they refuse and later learn that they should have accepted his assistance.

The pink refrigerator

2007
Dodsworth does as little work as he can, collecting items from a junkyard and placing them in his thrift store for sale, until he happens upon a pink refrigerator that spurs him to do much more with his life.

Jamie O'Rourke and the pooka

2002
While his wife is away, a lazy man relies on a pooka to clean up the messes that he and his friends make.

A treeful of pigs

1979
A farmer's wife uses drastic measures to get her husband to abandon his lazy ways.

The boy of the three-year nap

1988
A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son.
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