sluggard

Example Sentences

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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

To Dzerzhinsky�in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow�belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. President, we behold the transformation of the caterpillar into the butterfly and we marvel at the mysterious process of designing nature; but what a sluggard is nature when compared to the law!

From Medical experts: Investigation of Insanity by Juries by Thorne, W. S.