slothfulness
- a word derived from slothful.
Example Sentences
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Basically, I have to use my tendency toward slothfulness against my tendency for gluttony, and it really works!
From The Verge ● Jan. 12, 2022
The sports that don’t involve extreme velocity, like curling or biathlon, make up for their slothfulness by adding brooms and rifles.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2018
Passing his days with insuperable slothfulness, he lives in Mexico City in a damp apartment overlooking a vacant lot and works a dead-end job at a museum.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2016
Tenure, charges John R. Silber, president of Boston University, has become "a device used by the devil to encourage faculty slothfulness."
From Time Magazine Archive
And when they were even babies he would tell them of the yoke they must thrust from their shoulders—the yoke of submission and slothfulness.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
