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It also sheds light on which patterns are linked to more indolent forms of the disease, where intervening with invasive surgery or toxic radiation or chemotherapy might do more harm than good.

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Rather, there are indolent cancers, similar to those in the prostate, that grow more slowly, or hardly at all.

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I mean, who else could possibly be as indolent as a teachers' union member?

This kind of cancer can be so indolent that patients often die with it than from it.

In part, that is because neuroendocrine cancers tend to be quite slow growing, or indolent.

Salon wrote: “Hilton is the one everyone has come to see, and her indolent, dull coolness does not disappoint.”

[Rushdie] cut to a passage that imagined the most indolent couple imaginable, Linda Evangelista and Goncharov's Ilya Oblomov.

An indolent blonde, fond of dancing, but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints.

To this indolent, pleasure-loving son, nothing could be in greater contrast than the father.

The Portuguese are a people that require rousing; they are indolent, lazy, and generally helpless.

They are equally indolent and cowardly, when glutted with prey; and they seldom attack men unless they find them asleep.

Michel, who was so indolent that he would not pay the slightest attention to his own business affairs, in years gone by!

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to indolent, such as: drony, easygoing, fainéant, idle, inactive, and inert.

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

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