[uhnuhnuhn]

> in "stop being lazy" it is a verb

It isn't.

[sanderjd]

That's very pedantic! While I didn't mean "it" in that statement to refer just to the word "lazy", I suppose it's true that "being lazy" also isn't technically a verb. Other commenters below have found more precise language, but I think a charitable reading of what I wrote is pretty clear in meaning.

[Digit-Al]

How about "stop [acting] lazy"? 'Acting' has more of an implication of something you are putting on that can be easily changed, rather than 'being' which possibly implies something you are, that is not easily changed.

[sanderjd]

This is deeper down a rabbit hole than I really meant to go, but I personally think "being lazy" is appropriate; I spend time being lazy pretty often, and it isn't an act, it's true laziness, but it's also temporary.

[vermilingua]

No, but "being lazy" is an action, which can be stopped. It's much harder to stop being lazy if you are being told it's a facet of your identity.

[Zak]

Lazy, here, is a state. It could be understood as a temporary state like being asleep or being hungry, or a facet of one's identity.

"Stop slacking" might be better; it unambiguously refers to current behavior that a person can change immediately.

[betenoire]

I thought that maybe another language would have a word for this, and I found

https://spanishto-english.com/spanish-dictionary/haraganear

It calls "being lazy" an intransitive verb

[thomastjeffery]

Lazy is an attribute.

"Being lazy" is a transient state.

That's the important distinction here.