slothful
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Humans have long since lived a slothful existence in a spaceship where work is unnecessary and even walking is optional.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
It’s one thing to cheer the firing of federal employees if you consider them a bunch of slothful layabouts.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2025
We were self-interested and self-absorbed, apathetic, slothful, narcissistic—or so we were frequently told.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 20, 2019
One look at this slothful tea pal will have you sold.
From Slate • Jul. 15, 2019
Shame to the slothful and woe to the weak one.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing slothful
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