to depend on; to be dependent on

to trust; to have confidence in; to have faith in; to rely on

hoodlum; rascal; rogue; rascally; scoundrelly

to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on

surname Lai; (Tw) (coll.) LINE messaging app

Ryan (name)

Wright (name)

Rice (name); Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State 2005-2009

to act shamelessly; to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc; to act dumb; to act as if sth never happened

to rely on

Dalai Lama

to refuse to admit (what one has done); to disavow; to renege

to rely on; to be dependent on

naughty; cheeky

to deny; to disclaim; to disavow

to make a scene; to raise hell

(of an outcome) to rely on; to require; can only be achieved by means of

to deny (through sophism)

to depend ultimately on (Tw); absolutely reliant on

(coll.) debt dodger

to suffer tedium

to accuse falsely

to rely on; to depend on

to go back on a marriage contract; to repudiate an engagement

to have a lie-in; to dawdle in bed

shameless; (slang) rascal

to be shameless

to renege on a debt

the Dalai Lama; abbr. of 達賴喇嘛|达赖喇嘛[Da2 lai4 La3 ma5]

Orion (NASA spacecraft)

see 有賴|有赖[you3 lai4]

MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 鐮倉幕府|镰仓幕府[Lian2 cang1 mu4 fu3]

to act shamelessly; to behave in a way that leaves others tut-tutting and shaking their heads in disapproval

Lai Shengchuan (1954-), US-Taiwanese dramatist and director

Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back to China in 2008

campus dwellers (slang); graduates who cannot break away from campus life

lysine (Lys), an essential amino acid

William Lai Ching-te (1959-), Taiwanese DPP politician, vice president of the Republic of China from 2020

Lesotho (Tw)

(software engineering) dependency injection

(statistics) confidence interval

Fulbright (scholarship)

evil behavior (idiom); brazen villainy

to pester someone again and again

variant of 死乞白賴|死乞白赖[si3 qi5 bai2 lai4]

brazen faced (idiom); shameless

(idiom) bored to death; bored stiff; overcome with boredom

Liberia (Tw)

path dependence