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Meanings of slothful in English
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Examples for "lazy"
Examples for "lazy"
1
I can hear the lazy sea a short distance over the embankment.
2
His lazy list of political demands may have reflected an essential pyromania.
3
Route 6 went past in a long, lazy curve to the right.
4
I'm quite healthy but I can also be quite lazy about it.
5
A police department cruiser leads the way, lights flashing in lazy salute.
1
The clinical course is heterogeneous, manifested by a fulminant or indolent course.
2
In conclusion the indolent nature of the disease justifies a conservative approach.
3
It is often characterized by a clinically indolent course and delayed diagnosis.
4
Purpose: Patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma typically respond well to first-line immunochemotherapy.
5
PCBCL is generally an indolent form of lymphoma with a good prognosis.
1
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
2
Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
3
Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4
There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
5
We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
1
They were the Mayors of that Palace; he only le roi faineant.
2
An habitual drunkard was more welcome at "raisings" and "logrollings" than a known faineant.
3
While a roi faineant may fulfil effectively all the essential duties of sovereignty, an autocrate faineant is an absurdity.
4
I wonder if the faineant Sultan who luxuriates at Langat knows anything of the sensationalism of his "yacht."
5
So long as I am in the chair, I cannot be a faineant or refuse to do anything and everything incidental to the position.
1
That is the best of news for some of us work-shy or feeble gardeners.
2
For all but the most lavish and work-shy couples, a honeymoon has a defined end date.
3
He said I was a drug-addict, lazy, work-shy.
4
And no one could ever call him work-shy.
5
What are you snivelling for, you little work-shy?
Usage of slothful in English
1
It was in no way cheap; it did not flatter slothful ears.
2
Indeed in sleep 5 The slothful body, that does love to steep
3
Mr. Threader, by contrast, played the slothful tortoise to Drake's enterprising hare.
4
Minstrels were a slothful lot, averse to the chill of early morning.
5
I heard it then, the rough, fatty breathing of a slothful soul.
6
Your souls are worth a thousand worlds; and will you be slothful?
7
She was awake but dazed and looked at Erlendur with slothful eyes.
8
Will they not necessarily be slothful, if you are silent and sleep?
9
The day is short, the labor great, and the workman slothful.
10
But it is better to die sword in hand than in slothful ease.
11
The Diacony managers were slothful in business, and the Diaconies ceased to pay.
12
Tut, tut, Mr. Philander; this is no time to indulge in slothful ease.
13
The slothful man says, There is a lion in the path.
14
Swillers and belly-gods they be; slothful swine that forget their chieftain.
15
But lazy and slothful ministers were fortunately rare in New England.
16
Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.
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