[
US
/ˈsɫoʊθ/
]
[ UK /slˈɒθ/ ]
[ UK /slˈɒθ/ ]
NOUN
- a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
How To Use sloth In A Sentence
- Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
- Late in the day, just after we had feasted on the fruits of a wild cacao, we came upon a three-toed sloth climbing slowly through the upper branches of a cecropia tree. One River
- Two toed sloths are perhaps more heterothermic than any other mammal.
- Slothrop kicks aside loose earth and finds a brick cairn, stuffed with potatoes ensiled last year. Gravity's Rainbow
- Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
- Sloth turns the edge of wit.
- Sloth is the key of [to] poverty.
- Dogs, rhinoceroses, tree sloths, horses, and whales are placentals.
- Except that he was not slothful: he had been busy all night. MURDER SONG
- Most placental mammals have teeth that are capped with enamel, but there are also lineages without teeth, such as anteaters, pangolins and baleen whales, or with enamelless teeth, such as armadillos, sloths, aardvarks and pygmy and sperm whales. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
