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Examples of slothful
slothful
For us, the slothful spell was broken on our second afternoon by a shrill whistle.
From the telegraph.co.uk
This latest entry is a particularly hideous example of my slothful tendencies.
From the washingtonpost.com
In America, the market is mature, growing at a slothful pace of 2-3% per year.
From the economist.com
Think of slothful stunner Sleeping Beauty, or deep-sea dreamer The Little Mermaid.
From the guardian.co.uk
Koalas are usually slothful until the mating season when they begin bellowing.
From the sciencedaily.com
To prescribe the group that is slothful to become athletes seems to miss the point.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
The long, slobbering, slothful decline we had been looking forward to was not to be.
From the time.com
There, he'll be able to indulge slothful male habits like watching television in bed.
From the time.com
The first produced slothful growth, mind-bending red tape and suffocating bureaucracy.
From the economist.com
- Faineant: disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
- (slothfulness) sloth: a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- (sloth) 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
- (sloth) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- In the Christian moral tradition, sloth (Latin: acedia, accidia, pigritia) is one of the seven capital sins, often called the seven deadly sins; these sins are called the capital sins because they destroy the charity in a man's heart and thus may lead to eternal death.
- (Sloth (Fullmetal Alchemist)) The Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga series feature a large number of fictional characters created by Hiromu Arakawa. The story is set in a fictional universe within the 20th Century in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques known to man. ...
- (Sloth (Goonies)) The Goonies is a 1985 American adventure-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenplay was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg. ...
- (Sloth (mental state)) Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work. It is one of the Seven deadly sins (Catechism) and one of the Five hindrances (Buddhism).
- (Sloth(animal)) Sloths are the six species of medium-sized mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. They are arboreal residents of the rainforests of Central and South America. ...
