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
Three hundred pure white swans, fat, sluggard, stupid, sacred to the Hindu God Brahma, have been carried immemorially as a heavy and increasing charge on the budget of Jammu & Kashmir, famed Indian dual realm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day it was seen that in taking his time M. Caillaux is no sluggard.
From Time Magazine Archive
We would fly, but whither, in this train of sluggard things?
From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle
Vocabulary lists containing sluggard
Oedipus the King
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 3
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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