indolent
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Alice Lockey is lady’s maid to the earl’s daughter, the spoiled, indolent and surprisingly grubby Lady Jemima Alderwick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
But these roles are few and far between, remaining at a distance in favor of indolent stories that only echo the humor of Sandler’s earliest work.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025
She added: "We will always be grateful that Moth's version of CBS is indolent, its slow progression has allowed us time to discover how walking helps him."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
The L.A. antiquarian Charles Fletcher Lummis called it the Land of Poco Tiempo in his 1893 book of the same name, depicting it as a real-life territory of lotus eaters, of indolent pleasure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Day after day he went into the room where Lotus lay indolent upon her bed and he sat beside her and watched her at all she did.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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