sluggard

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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

Next day it was seen that in taking his time M. Caillaux is no sluggard.

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

While Lincoln was in Congress, Herndon wrote to him complaining of his sluggard progress in politics, and carped at the old men for usurping all the places of power and profit.

From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron