sluggard

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With television’s new proximity to the more puritanical uses of our devices, the archetype of the beached sluggard on the couch has been smuggled into a portrait of diligence.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 6, 2016

I've never been a sluggard, and yet I've never felt that I've done one twentieth of what I was capable of doing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2013

Last week the American Banker made it appear that Mr. Jones, in his private capacity as board chairman, president and principal owner of Houston's National Bank of Commerce, was something of a sluggard himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

A slugger but no sluggard, the old publisher stepped smartly to the plate, smacked the Roosevelt pitch straight back at the box.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides, she had never been so busy before in all her life, and Ruth Fielding was no sluggard.

From Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam by Emerson, Alice B.