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
"Make him move over!" they shout as she bears down on a 55-m.p.h. sluggard in the fast lane.
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
"Is it the air or the sense of superiority over the sluggard that invites thee up at unsunned hours?"
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
