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Meanings of sloth in English
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.
Usage of sloth in English
1
We should get tough, if necessary funding legal challenges to American sloth.
2
The sloth, incompetence and nepotism of officials, exposed in recent months, remains.
3
It is by the sloth, the drunkenness or the villainy of servants.
4
That doesn't sound particularly enticing to a sloth, but it was perfect.
5
The poison of sloth will get into the soul little by little.
6
They attempted impossibilities when their subjects were sunk in sloth and degradation.
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He has shaken off the yoke of his spiritual sloth and avarice.
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Objection 1: It would seem that sloth is not a special vice.
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Objection 1: It would seem that sloth is not a mortal sin.
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A French naturalist in 1822 assigned the sloth the name Megalonyx jeffersoni.
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Figuring out the muzzle shape of each sloth was a multi-step process.
12
It is a reversion to magic, a pandering to man's natural sloth.
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No life is wasted unless it ends in sloth, dishonesty, or cowardice.
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Apathy creeps over the spirit, and sloth winds itself about our deeds.
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Surely it's not for sloth your master lets you go to seed.
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Accusations of sloth and lukewarmness might not unjustly be preferred against her.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common