sluggard

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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

Last week the American Banker made it appear that Mr. Jones, in his private capacity as board chairman, president and principal owner of Houston's National Bank of Commerce, was something of a sluggard himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Myrmecology sets Mystic Maeterlinck musing; he thinks the ant may be an example, not only to the sluggard, but to the whole race.

From Time Magazine Archive

The noblest sluggard of us all has stated our case for us.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)