sluggard
/ˈslʌɡəd
/noun
A lazy, sluggish person: I’m waiting for those sluggards to bring my steak...
- These ants: they always claim to work hard, but in truth they're nothing but lazy idle sluggards!
- We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, and the industrious ant, a sluggard.
- Pool is on the agenda, I think, although card is subject to change depending on when the other sluggards can get their asses into gear.
Derivatives
sluggardliness
- I mention that merely to show that I am not one who supports sluggardliness in court proceedings.
- How could you apply the remedy suggested by the ant to the one area of sluggardliness you mentioned previously?
- Swimming is a detoxicating pill that purges away the heaviness and weariness in the heart just as it expunges slothfulness and sluggardliness in the body.
sluggardly
/ adjective ...- It's up to you to draft and sign contracts with manufacturing firms which produce ineffective cannons, imprecise missiles, and sluggardly bullets that travel slower than a crippled sea slug.
- Meanwhile, progress towards equal numbers of men and women in the House of Commons continues at such a sluggardly rate that it is unlikely to be achieved before the middle of this coming century.
- He was a confirmed loser, the most sluggardly of his Cambridge set.
Origin
Middle English: from the rare verb slug 'be lazy or slow' + -ard.
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