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slothful

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sloth·ful  (slôthfl, slth-, slth-)
adj.
Disinclined to work or exertion; lazy. See Synonyms at lazy.

slothful·ly adv.
slothful·ness n.

slothful [ˈsləʊθfʊl]
adj
indolent
slothfully  adv
slothfulness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.slothful - disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
idle - not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"

slothful
adjective (Formal) lazy, idle, inactive, indolent, do-nothing (informal), slack, sluggish, inert, skiving (Brit. slang), torpid, good-for-nothing, workshy, fainéant He was not slothful: he had been busy all night.
Translations
slothful [ˈsləʊθfʊl] ADJperezoso, vago, flojo
slothful [ˈsləʊθfʊl] adj (= idle) → paresseux/euse
slot machine n
(for gambling)machine f à sous
(= vending machine) → distributeur m, distributeur m automatique
slotted spoon nécumoire f
slothful
adjfaul; person, life alsoträge
slothful [ˈsləʊθfʊl] adj (frm) → indolente
slothful [ˈsləʊθfʊl] adj (frm) → indolente


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The diligent lived well and comfortably, and the slothful hard and beggarly; and so, I believe, generally speaking, it is all over the world.
Seeing which Don Quixote quitted the soft down, and, nowise slothful, dressed himself in his chamois suit and put on his travelling boots to hide the disaster to his stockings.
I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans--of their subsequent degenerating--of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.
 
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