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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.
CHANGING CANCER CARE, SO PATIENTS NO LONGER FEEL LIKE A NUMBERALICE PARKNOVEMBER 3, 2021TIMERather, there are indolent cancers, similar to those in the prostate, that grow more slowly, or hardly at all.
BRINGING WISDOM TO BREAST CANCER CAREALICE PARKOCTOBER 22, 2021TIMEAn indolent blonde, fond of dancing, but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHETo this indolent, pleasure-loving son, nothing could be in greater contrast than the father.
THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTHThe Portuguese are a people that require rousing; they are indolent, lazy, and generally helpless.
SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYL. HIGGIN AND EUGNE E. STREETThey are equally indolent and cowardly, when glutted with prey; and they seldom attack men unless they find them asleep.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME VII (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFONMichel, who was so indolent that he would not pay the slightest attention to his own business affairs, in years gone by!
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEThey were all gorgeously attired, and lolling about in indolent attitudes, as if life were an indescribable bore to them.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNGThey 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.
LABOULAYE'S FAIRY BOOKVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO INDOLENT
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-footed
- slow-going
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- apathetic
- benumbed
- comatose
- dopey
- dormant
- drowsy
- dull
- faineant
- fainéant
- heavy
- hebetudinous
- idle
- inactive
- indifferent
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- languid
- languorous
- latent
- leaden
- lethargic
- listless
- lymphatic
- motionless
- numb
- paralyzed
- passive
- slothful
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- slumberous
- sodden
- somnolent
- stagnant
- static
- stupid
- stuporous
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