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UK
/slˈɒθfəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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disinclined to work or exertion
faineant kings under whose rule the country languished
slothful employees
too lazy to wash the dishes
shiftless idle youth
an indolent hanger-on
the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy
How To Use slothful In A Sentence
- Except that he was not slothful: he had been busy all night. MURDER SONG
- Now, at 8: 00 a.m., the calliope hauled out of the local museum each year awakens the open-windowed slothful for blocks around.
- People don’t tend to use the word sloth anymore, yet the Bible speaks in very strong terms about the issue of slothfulness or laziness. Living on the Edge
- _Agility_ and _Nimbleness_; this renders the Limbs flexible and mettlesom, and adapts them for the most Vigorous Enterprize: It makes the languid and slothful, _brisk_ and _sprightful_; and rejects The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
- I'm feeling pretty slothful and despondent today, so I've took the lazy option of filling a bit of blogspace by copying down one of those questionnaires that I so detest.
- That often happens when it's been a slow news day, a sluggish news week or sometimes even a slothful news month.
- Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
- This sedentary behaviour is apparently turning our kids into a race of slothful fatties who risk a reduced lifespan and other problems.
- Investigation into UG lecturer 'slothful' - UG student - 0 Comments Stabroek News
- The second figure was walking towards the survivors with the same slow, slothful intent as the first had just minutes earlier.