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

Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was something of a sluggard in class, but after school he roamed through the rugged Provencal landscape with a youngster whose nature was as strong and perhaps even deeper than his own�Paul C�zanne.

From Time Magazine Archive

That celebrated bird is quite a sluggard, as it does not rise till long after chaffinches, linnets, and a number of hedgerow birds have been up and about for some time.

From St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various