懈怠

xièdài

adjective #35,141

Meanings

1 slack
2 lazy
3 remiss
4 negligent

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Examples

工作中不能有丝毫懈怠。

Gōngzuò zhōng bù néng yǒu sīháo xièdài.

You cannot afford the slightest slackness at work.

法官警告他不得再懈怠职守。

Fǎguān jǐnggào tā bùdé zài xièdài zhíshǒu.

The judge warned him against any further dereliction of duty.

Tips

register

Formal and slightly classical. In legal and workplace writing, 懈怠职守 ('dereliction of duty') is the set collocation; in everyday speech people say 偷懒 for 'being lazy'.

Stroke Order

懈 xiè

怠 dài