sluggard

Example Sentences

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For example, government efficiency is but a pipe dream, and government effectiveness can be easily called the primary sluggard in reform.

From Washington Times

She spends every moment in his presence lashing him verbally; he absorbs every blow with a sluggard’s indifference.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Its citizens were viewed as sluggards, “cowardly Blockheads” in the words of one early writer.

From New York Times

The voice of the sluggard, it seems, is only going to grow louder.  

From Economist