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Meanings of sloth in English
Synonyms
Examples for "laziness"
Examples for "laziness"
1
Is laziness really behind the lack of work uptake in some industries?
2
Here's an idea: I think we should call it a laziness tax.
3
Another was brutally cruel to animals; another was the impersonation of laziness.
4
Infectious diseases may have an unexpected weakness: their own propensity for laziness.
5
Beards are either a sign of laziness or a statement of vanity.
1
The poison of indolence is in our blood-thetendency to centralized tyranny.
2
Manufacturing claims of youthful indolence is merely another day at the office.
3
The former found a motive in their pride to justify their indolence.
4
The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
5
He was lounging in an easy chair, looking the picture of indolence.
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.
7
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.
10
A French naturalist in 1822 assigned the sloth the name Megalonyx jeffersoni.
11
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.
13
No life is wasted unless it ends in sloth, dishonesty, or cowardice.
14
Apathy creeps over the spirit, and sloth winds itself about our deeds.
15
Surely it's not for sloth your master lets you go to seed.
16
Accusations of sloth and lukewarmness might not unjustly be preferred against her.
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Sloth through the time
Sloth across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common