SLOTHFUL in a Sentence
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Example sentences for SLOTHFUL, such as:
1. On waking I lay long in bed yielding to sloth.
2. His thoughts were lice born of the sweat of sloth.
3. Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever.
4. Abashed by this question, I replied that sloth was my chief temptation.
5. The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.
2. His thoughts were lice born of the sweat of sloth.
3. Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever.
4. Abashed by this question, I replied that sloth was my chief temptation.
5. The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.
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Meanings and Examples of SLOTHFUL
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slothful
a. disinclined to work or exertion
Classic Sentence:
1 Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever.
2 On waking I lay long in bed yielding to sloth.
3 Abashed by this question, I replied that sloth was my chief temptation.
4 There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.
5 His thoughts were lice born of the sweat of sloth.
Example Sentence:
1 Lying idly on the sofa while others worked, Reggie denied he was slothful: "I just supervise better lying down.".
2 The sloth is at its busiest at sunset, using the word busy here in a most relaxed sense.
3 The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.