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
“If you’re running the thing in a wasteful or slothful way, you’re going to get called on it,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2022
We were self-interested and self-absorbed, apathetic, slothful, narcissistic—or so we were frequently told.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 20, 2019
For the rest of the week, I was peevish and slothful.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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