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Meanings of desidia in English

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Allegorical human figure personifying sloth as of one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

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        Examples for "indolence"
        Examples for "indolence"
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        The poison of indolence is in our blood-thetendency to centralized tyranny.
        The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
        2
        Manufacturing claims of youthful indolence is merely another day at the office.
        The Guardian
        3
        The former found a motive in their pride to justify their indolence.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        4
        The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
        Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
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        He was lounging in an easy chair, looking the picture of indolence.
        A Peep Behind the Scenes
        1
        We should get tough, if necessary funding legal challenges to American sloth.
        The Guardian
        2
        The sloth, incompetence and nepotism of officials, exposed in recent months, remains.
        The Guardian
        3
        It is by the sloth, the drunkenness or the villainy of servants.
        The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 / Swift's Wr...
        4
        That doesn't sound particularly enticing to a sloth, but it was perfect.
        The Guardian
        5
        The poison of sloth will get into the soul little by little.
        How to Live a Holy Life