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Definition of slothful:
Synonyms:
purposeless, work-shy, futile, inert, indolent, unoccupied, action, superfluous, sluggard, unavailing, faineant, pointless, vacant, senseless, inactive, bone lazy, wasted, industrious, shiftless, idle, do-nothing, trifling, lazy, ineffectual, unemployed, otiose.
Usage examples:
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The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way, and I shall be devoured in the streets.
- "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)", Edmund Burke. -
Be this, above all things, thy care, Thy children still to rear, As those who court not Fortune's smiles, Nor playthings are of idle hope, or fear: And so the future age will call them blessed; For, in this slothful and deceitful world, The living virtue ever we despise, The dead we load with eulogies.
- "The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi", Giacomo Leopardi. -
The strong and the willing saw that they were yoked to those who were weak and slothful; there was no chance for natural abilities to assert themselves, no reward for individual excellence.
- "Stories of the Badger State", Reuben Gold Thwaites.