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Indolent

adjective

Disinclined to work or exertion. Synonyms: faineant, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy. "An indolent hanger-on" , "Too lazy to wash the dishes" , "Shiftless idle youth" , "Slothful employees" , "The unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

(of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless. "Leprosy is an indolent infectious disease"

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"Indolent" Quotes from Famous Books

... of his indolent habits, which were incorrigible, young Montgomery was removed from the seminary at Fulneck, and placed in the shop of a baker at Mirfield, in the vicinity. He was then in his sixteenth year; and having already afforded evidence of a refined taste, both in poetry and music, though careless ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

... me—and I hope I may be pardoned, at this late stage in my inquiry, for intruding my own personality—I reject the two commonest of them: passion, at least in its more adventurous and melodramatic aspects, is too exciting and alarming for so indolent a man, and I am too egoistic to have much desire to be mothered. What, then, remains for me? Let me try to ...

— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

... will wonder why I have not finished the tasks they set Me nor accepted the bribes they offered. And to-morrow they will rebuke Me as a faithless, indolent servant who ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... reach an eminence in study or art or character, without blessing the entire family group. We have all seen that the father and mother feel that all life's care and labor were at last perfectly rewarded in the success of their child. But had the child been reckless or indolent, all this domestic joy—the joy of a large group—would have ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... the bearing of Gaston de Bois, by which Maurice was struck, had been wrought by a triad of agents. A man who had passed his life in indolent seclusion, who had plunged into a tangled labyrinth of abstruse books, not in search of valuable knowledge, but to lose in its mazes the recollection of valueless hours; who had allowed his days to ...

— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

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