slothful
[slawth-fuhl, slohth-]
adjective
sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
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Origin of slothful
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slothful
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slothful
c.1400, from sloth + -ful. Related: Slothfully; slothfulness. For the latter, Middle English also had sloth-head (c.1300), with Middle English -hede, cognate with -hood.
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