Usage of "sluggard" | TermGallery

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An idle slothful person.

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Uso de sluggard en inglés

The rigid economizer is in danger of being classed with the sluggard. 
 My Life and Work 

An ounce of self-denial will work miracles in a sluggard, cowardly soul. 
 Explanation of Catholic Morals / A Concise, Reasoned, and Popula... 

When I reached home the others jeered at me for a sluggard. 
 Jim Davis 

The sluggard and the self-indulgent can have no knowledge of Truth. 
 The Way of Peace 

The voice of the sluggard would be a more appropriate quotation, I think. 
 Rose in Bloom / A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" 

It is to be finished and ready on the holy festival, great sluggard. 
 Christmas Stories And Legends 

The sluggard Merovingians drove the Franks, Neustrians, and Austrasians to this imperative necessity. 
 A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 

A country kinder to the sluggard husbandman than any I have ever seen. 
 Life of John Sterling 

Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom: 
 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 

And better an active mind, say I, than a sluggard partisan. 
 Richard Carvel — Volume 01 

This picture of the sluggard's garden seems to be intended as a parable. 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En... 

Moses' meekness did not make him a coward or a sluggard. 
 The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons 

Was it not for her, Lloyd, to rouse that sluggard ambition? 
 A Man's Woman 

The fans who watch the game of life despise the sluggard in the strife. 
 Rippling Rhymes 

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences. 
 The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 

Solomon startles the sluggard with his sharp admonition to betake himself to the ant. 
 A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the G... 