slothful
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Slothful, wasteful, idiotic – this is how the bureaucracy is often portrayed.
From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2018
Slothful people are often untidy in their personal appearance; and they are nearly always in misery and want, unless somebody else takes care of them.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.
Else better were it in some bower of peace Slothful to swing, contending with the flies.
From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George
The Slothful Man’s Arbour has been already described.
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander
Our garden was another Moorish wilderness, another "Field of the Slothful," thick in a waste of weeds, blue borage, and yellow marigolds.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel
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Edward Albee (1928-2016) Tribute List
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