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

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

They glowed and ruffled until the sluggard forsook his couch and, creeping over the chilly floor, flung them back into a day-long folded tranquillity.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton