slothful
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Slothful, wasteful, idiotic – this is how the bureaucracy is often portrayed.
From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2018
The whole of the feather-bed was out in the courtyard now, and the Great Sloth climbed slowly back over it into its room to find out who had dared to outrage its Slothful Majesty.
From The Magic City by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)
The Slothful Man’s Arbour has been already described.
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander
Slothful people are often untidy in their personal appearance; and they are nearly always in misery and want, unless somebody else takes care of them.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.
Our garden was another Moorish wilderness, another "Field of the Slothful," thick in a waste of weeds, blue borage, and yellow marigolds.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel
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