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

"Make him move over!" they shout as she bears down on a 55-m.p.h. sluggard in the fast lane.

From Time Magazine Archive

No sluggard, Herr Hitler had written his great Purge Speech, as Germans called it, entirely alone last week, shutting himself off from friends and advisers.

From Time Magazine Archive

But they are few, for though I am spiritually a son of the morning, I am physically a sluggard.

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