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sluggard

noun as in lazy person

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Hyperion yelled to the surrounding crowd: “Group A-22! Hurry up, you sluggards!”

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Mice that received plasma from the jogging rodents also performed better on memory tests than did those injected with plasma from the sluggards.

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For example, government efficiency is but a pipe dream, and government effectiveness can be easily called the primary sluggard in reform.

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She spends every moment in his presence lashing him verbally; he absorbs every blow with a sluggard’s indifference.

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With television’s new proximity to the more puritanical uses of our devices, the archetype of the beached sluggard on the couch has been smuggled into a portrait of diligence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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