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sluggard

[ UK /slˈʌɡəd/ ]
NOUN
  1. an idle slothful person

How To Use sluggard In A Sentence

  • We are also enjoined to learn lessons from animals: ‘Go to the ant, you sluggard, see its ways and become wise!’
  • When dawn breaks, this nocturnal bird turns into an impossible sluggard.
  • We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, and the industrious ant, a sluggard.
  • If, on the other hand, we say of a boy, ‘He's not going anywhere,’ we are not praising his steadfastness but damning him as an ambitionless sluggard.
  • And thou meseemeth art overlate on the field: the mowing of this meadow is no sluggard's work. ' The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
  • Wait but till I call the goodman and open a pottle of my summer beer; 't is dear Dame Brewster's diet-drink, with a thought more flavor to it, and John says -- ah, here thou art, thou big sluggard. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
  • These ants: they always claim to work hard, but in truth they're nothing but lazy idle sluggards!
  • Remember, the sluggard would have been warmer, with a wholesome warmth, at the ploughtail than cowering in the chimney corner. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
  • “A murrain on thee, thou lazy losel!” said Rudolph — “Thou art the only sluggard of thy kyn.” Anne of Geierstein
  • “A murrain on thee, thou lazy losel!” said Rudolph — “Thou art the only sluggard of thy kyn.” Anne of Geierstein
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