Sloth
[sləʊθ] or [sloθ]
Definition
(noun.) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
(noun.) any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits.
(noun.) a disinclination to work or exert yourself.
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Definition
(n.) Slowness; tardiness.
(n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
(n.) Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
(v. i.) To be idle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inactivity, inaction, laziness, indolence, idleness, inertness, sluggishness, torpor, lumpishness, supineness, slothfulness.
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Definition
n. laziness sluggishness: a sluggish arboreal animal of tropical America of two genera (Cholœpus the two-toed sloth and Bradypus the three-toed sloth).—adj. Sloth′ful given to sloth: inactive: lazy.—adv. Sloth′fully.—n. Sloth′fulness.
Typist: Nathaniel
Examples
- That remains of all the laziness, sloth and failure. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You hear it said that without the private ownership of capital people will lose ambition and sink into sloth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Then by the sloth of a bureaucratic fascist. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When they reached South America, they found the giant sloth (the _Megatherium_), the glyptodon, and many other extinct creatures, still flourishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When men reached the southern extremity of America, the _Megatherium_, the giant sloth, and the _Glyptodon_, the giant armadillo, were still living. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They have settled happily into the sloth and bureaucracy of governing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Fate would not so be pacified; nor would Providence sanction this shrinking sloth and cowardly indolence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Dalton, likewise, in Pander and Dalton's work on Fossil Sloths, expressed, in 1821, a similar belief. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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