indolent

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In it, she said it’s no longer possible to “be naive or indolent about the Cuban government’s actions toward human rights defenders and activists. The international community is also responsible for what happens to us.”

From Los Angeles Times

These are working people, not the layabouts that the GOP always says will somehow be made indolent by access to health care.

From Washington Times

Muhammad Ali considered his son both indolent and corpulent, and put the boy on a strict regimen of diet and exercise that involved walking around a vessel in Alexandria, not far from De Lesseps’ home.

From Los Angeles Times

But the best ones can jolt the status quo in useful ways: exposing injustice, challenging outdated norms or merely putting indolent gatekeepers on notice.

From New York Times

They are a team in the image of their coach, Jurgen Klopp, the kind of man for whom even the most indolent Everton fan would run to the ends of the earth.

From The Guardian