sluggard
Example Sentences
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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
Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Myrmecology sets Mystic Maeterlinck musing; he thinks the ant may be an example, not only to the sluggard, but to the whole race.
From Time Magazine Archive
I went to a window that looked on the garden, and I heard a voice calling me a sluggard.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Kock, Charles Paul de
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