Some players try to avoid the time and effort required to build up a character by paying someone else to do it for them.

If you believe that righteous effort leads to the shame of personal failure, you'll seek to avoid righteous effort.

They do it, because they want to avoid effort.

I usually steer a middle course which avoids both waste and effort.

He goes out of his way to avoid doing work, to avoid expending effort of any kind.

As such, system designers will try to avoid bottlenecks and direct effort towards locating and tuning existing bottlenecks.

Learned helpless children avoid effort because they believe they are not clever enough to succeed.

This, it was suggested, led to considerable pressure on complainants to withdraw complaints to avoid the time and effort involved in a full investigation.

Instead, he developed what he called a "generic theory of dancing" that avoided unnecessary effort.

Self-handicapping is the process by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem.