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indolent
/ ˈɪndələnt /
adjective
- disliking work or effort; lazy; idle
- pathol causing little pain
an indolent tumour
- (esp of a painless ulcer) slow to heal
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Derived Forms
- ˈindolently, adverb
- ˈindolence, noun
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Other Words From
- indo·lent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of indolent1
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Example Sentences
I mean, who else could possibly be as indolent as a teachers' union member?
This kind of cancer can be so indolent that patients often die with it than from it.
In part, that is because neuroendocrine cancers tend to be quite slow growing, or indolent.
Salon wrote: “Hilton is the one everyone has come to see, and her indolent, dull coolness does not disappoint.”
[Rushdie] cut to a passage that imagined the most indolent couple imaginable, Linda Evangelista and Goncharov's Ilya Oblomov.
An indolent blonde, fond of dancing, but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints.
To this indolent, pleasure-loving son, nothing could be in greater contrast than the father.
The Portuguese are a people that require rousing; they are indolent, lazy, and generally helpless.
They are equally indolent and cowardly, when glutted with prey; and they seldom attack men unless they find them asleep.
Michel, who was so indolent that he would not pay the slightest attention to his own business affairs, in years gone by!
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