Sluggard
['slʌgəd] or ['slʌɡɚd]
Definition
(n.) A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
(a.) Sluggish; lazy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Drone, lounger, idler, trifler, laggard, doodle, slug, slow-back.
n. Sluggish, lazy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Idler, drone, lazybones, laggard,[See SLUNK]
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Examples
- To do this is to commit the sin of him who buried his talent in a napkin--despicable sluggard! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I hope, Sir Knight, said the hermit, thou hast given no good reason for thy surname of the Sluggard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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