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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
- Kadredin was not to be deterred from his slothful recitation. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- Within days of my arrival, unshakeable slothfulness had settled comfortably upon me like a high tog duvet. LOVE YOU MADLY
- He painted government as the slothful bloated protector of welfare cheats, overpaid bureaucrats and useless politicians.
- And from the Po itself, and its tributary the Mincio, which broadens into the three lakes that wrap themselves slothfully around the old town, comes fog - huge banks of it that make life cold and unfocussed between autumn and spring.
- They are dull, slow, sober and fearful characters with a weak pulse and a cowardly, slothful disposition.
- By day four, I had melted into a slothful recluse: soul and body atrophying, hair matted, bed unmade, depressed and petulant - a real joy.
- If they are dull, dead, and slothful in them, if under the power of customariness and formality, what issue can they expect? Pneumatologia
- The addition of "slothful" is to mark the precise nature of his wickedness: it consisted, it seems, not in his doing anything against, but simply nothing for his master. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- In captivity, the tigers were generally thought to be slothful, sluggish and boring and did not entertain their viewers.
- I know that it's way too early to declare any kind of victory over my slothful nature, but methinks it's a very good sign.