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indolent

How to use indolent in a sentence

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.

THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTH

The thrifty of the colored race live well; the others who are indolent live in hovels which smell foul and are filthy.

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!

They were all gorgeously attired, and lolling about in indolent attitudes, as if life were an indescribable bore to them.

They can exist without much labor, and are too indolent to strive to rise to a higher level of existence.

THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.

Supple, agile, and adroit in all kinds of bodily exercises, Charming had an indolent mind.

For myself, grown too indolent for an interest in aught beyond the sentimentalities of politics, I sorrow that this is so.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985