indolent
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Alice Lockey is lady’s maid to the earl’s daughter, the spoiled, indolent and surprisingly grubby Lady Jemima Alderwick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
But these roles are few and far between, remaining at a distance in favor of indolent stories that only echo the humor of Sandler’s earliest work.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025
The L.A. antiquarian Charles Fletcher Lummis called it the Land of Poco Tiempo in his 1893 book of the same name, depicting it as a real-life territory of lotus eaters, of indolent pleasure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The truce idea was not born of naivete, but of desperation, in a country with over 110,000 disappeared and woefully indolent or over-worked police and forensics examiners.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Another woman with the same mutation might develop an indolent variant; and yet another might not develop breast cancer at all.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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