unindustrious

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A good unindustrious person knows – like the slower moving gastropods before us – that there shouldn’t be a rush to expend your energy.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2018

You know I have been no coward, nor unindustrious in attempting that; nor will I give it over yet.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

The unindustrious father was prevailed upon to divide with the mother the burden of teaching them and undertook the task with a mild protest, employing what he humorously designated the "Socratic method."

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various

In a word, nothing except the numbers of unindustrious poor that swarm at the gate excites any one idea of its former circumstances.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman