sluggard
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Mice that received plasma from the jogging rodents also performed better on memory tests than did those injected with plasma from the sluggards.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 8, 2021
Employees have enough stresses right now without employers suddenly treating them as sluggards who will slack off at the earliest opportunity.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2020
Its citizens were viewed as sluggards, “cowardly Blockheads” in the words of one early writer.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016
It’s possible that having two fewer chromosomes than everyone else gave Guy and Doll’s family a whopping evolutionary advantage, allowing them to out-compete the 48-chromosome sluggards.
From Slate • Jul. 19, 2012
Accomplished ballroom dancers, sluggards who knew neither traditional nor Western dancing, all joined in the indlamu, the traditional Zulu war dance.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing sluggard
Oedipus the King
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 3
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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