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

Three hundred pure white swans, fat, sluggard, stupid, sacred to the Hindu God Brahma, have been carried immemorially as a heavy and increasing charge on the budget of Jammu & Kashmir, famed Indian dual realm.

From Time Magazine Archive

A slugger but no sluggard, the old publisher stepped smartly to the plate, smacked the Roosevelt pitch straight back at the box.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides, she had never been so busy before in all her life, and Ruth Fielding was no sluggard.

From Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam by Emerson, Alice B.